Outdoor activities are a great way to beat the January blues and keep active. Are you familiar with Red January or Red Together? Since 2016, the community’s aim has been to inspire people to ‘move every day, to beat the winter blues away’, while encouraging everyone to enhance their mental health by simply adding more … Read more
Forest bathing and leaf-peeping are ways we can embrace the changing of the seasons and autumn. Or as John Keats called it the ‘season of mists and mellow fruitfulness’. Although Keats was famous for his musings while immersing himself in nature, the origins of forest bathing actually come from somewhere else… Forest Bathing What is … Read more
Rainy day walks may not be your favourite pastime. However, we are here to help change that. As National Umbrella Day celebrates the wonders of this great invention (each February 10th in the UK), we thought we’d take this as inspiration, to explain how you can enjoy a walk in the rain with an umbrella … Read more
A healthy heart is important to maintain. It can help reduce blood pressure, boost your mood and prevent depression, as well as the risk of developing dementia. If you can reduce the risks of developing life-threatening conditions such as these, you’ll enhance your overall heart health and well-being in the long term. As its National … Read more
A healthy diet can help us lead a healthy and happy lifestyle. In fact, some of the worlds healthiest diets can even help us live longer but have you considered following one of them? There are plenty of healthy plates and platters that we can create at home, which originate from some of our favourite … Read more
Wellness retreats are known for their healing powers, natural treatments and settings. Some of the most well-known are in Asia. However, we have located some of the most luxurious wellness retreats in the UK, if these are too difficult to reach. There are retreats for mindfulness, fitness retreats and even primal retreats for your inner … Read more
Looking after your health and wellbeing is an important task, especially when normal activities and routines are curtailed. Each day we should be doing something to look after our physical and mental health to provide a greater sense of wellbeing overall. It can involve many quite simple activities including caring for a member of the … Read more
Wellness holidays or wellbeing breaks are for everyone. However, if you are living with a medical condition, you may benefit from a health and wellbeing holiday more than most. Going away for a long weekend, city break or a couple of weeks in the sun with family, friends or just on your own can be … Read more
We are promoting kidney health awareness for World Kidney Day. World Kidney Day is coming up fast on the 14th of March. It is an international awareness campaign to draw attention to the importance of kidney health. In the run up we thought we would take a close up look at this vital – and … Read more
Many of us wait all year for a chance to soak up the rays on a sunshine break. But as beneficial as the sun can be for our mood, it’s also potentially damaging for our skin. It’s therefore essential to take precautions ahead of and during a trip to sunnier climes. Figures from Cancer Research … Read more
