Dry January: Week 1! I decided to do Dry January after a solid three months of weekend getaways, day-drinking for special occasions and more missed yoga classes due to hangovers than I’d like to admit to.
My name’s Charlotte and I’m a recovering people pleaser. For the best part of 30 years I did everything and anything I could to make sure everyone around me was happy – except myself.
Success is something we always strive for yet we want it at the snap of our fingers. As in the words of the infamous Kanye West, “you need to crawl…
“Life is just like a box of chocolates. You can’t decide what you’re going to get, but you can decide what you do with it.”
“Sometimes I do just have to sigh over my favourite thing (writing) and one of my dislikes (social media) having this postmodern marriage. Can the two just not exist within their separate orbits?”
“We should not be criticising our self image and definitely not apologising for not living up to unattainable standards.”
This is not the article I was supposed to write about the election. This is the thought currently running through my head like the endless news reels of this long…
Did you know that the French indulge in an average of 16.4 hours of “me time” a day on things like sleeping, eating and socialising?
Want to find cheap flights for a spur of the moment trip to fulfil your wanderlust fantasies? Yes my friends, there’s an app for that. Let’s talk travel.
When you google “can going on your phone too much can affect the shape of your thumbs?”, maybe it’s time to put down the phone.
It’s the common summer curse that when we behold a seemingly infinite time span of freedom, we don’t know quite what to do with it. Here are some ideas to keep you busy over the holidays without breaking the bank.
“Our parents never let us in to the reality that adulthood is hard, undefined, and at times downright painful, but it’s not impossible – or so they tell me.”
“The truth is I will never be “white” enough or “Chinese” enough to appease those that think I am less. And why should I try too?”
In hindsight, we’re able to look at our lives, slightly older, slightly wiser. With this in mind, what would you tell your younger self?
It’s clear that a big city like London has a growing number of homeless people but sadly homelessness is seen as more of a nuisance than a cry for help.
Don’t learn the hard way. With these simple do’s and don’ts you may just become a fully functioning adult living outside sanctity of the University bubble.