Food cravings can empower you to tune in to your body’s needs, encouraging you to listen and be open. Cravings are often demonised as a nagging inner critic that encourages negative self-talk, feelings of shame and can disharmonise our relationship with food, but they deserve your attention, rather than be fought.

The intent of this article is to emphasise the overall health and longevity benefits of exercise, to shift our focus away from ‘needing’ to look a specific type of way, and rather celebrate and practice how movement is essential to our wonderful human bodies.

The luteal phase of the menstrual cycle is the season of self-care. These are the agonising days of PMS symptoms such as sore breasts, acne, crying spells and crankiness. To make the best and most out of your self-care practice, the key is to identify when the luteal phase is approaching.

Mindful eating is nothing new, but in reality, it is so difficult to practise, especially at iftar time during Ramadan.