At the end of 2021, I paid £380 for the privilege of a psychiatrist telling me I have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. This was a huge relief, particularly as the same compulsive, overthinking tendencies that led to the diagnosis had also convinced me that I was making it up. The psychiatrist […]
Moving anywhere is intimidating. Taking stock of everything you’ve accumulated, packing it all up, lugging it to your new place, changing your address, working out where the nearest supermarket is… The list gets all the more intimidating when that move is to a new town or city (or country!) where […]
As anyone who rents knows, “space-saving” is a magical, golden, almost-too-good-to-be-true description. Especially when used in relation to furniture; even more so when you rent in a space-challenged city. Don’t even get me started on when you flat share and are relegated to fitting your bedroom, living space, home office […]
While I wouldn’t put myself in the category of someone who has an intense phobia of flying (e.g. avoiding it at all costs), the cabin of an aeroplane has always been a nightmare playground where my long-held anxiety kicks into overdrive. No matter how much I enjoy a pre-flight Nando’s, […]
In our series Salary Stories, women with long-term career experience open up about the most intimate details of their jobs: compensation. It’s an honest look at how real people navigate the complicated world of negotiating, raises, promotions and job loss, with the hope it will give young women more insight into […]
Scorpio Season starts this Monday, and the final eclipse of the Taurus-Scorpio axis strikes on October 28th. We’re nearing the end of a two-year cycle of potent evolution, and with the ongoing global revolution occurring this eclipse is quite timely as it will awaken us to the shadow work we […]
When you think about all that oral sex entails (unpredictable tongue and lip movements combined with the feel of a warm, wet mouth, for starters), it makes sense that it’d be difficult to replicate the feel of mouth-to-vulva contact with a vibrator. Thanks to quickly advancing sex tech, however, we’re […]
Throughout the course of Lululemon’s 25-year athleisure reign, the Canadian-born brand has garnered an impassioned fanbase that few can hold a candle to. The brand has a subreddit with more than 340k users, 4.7 million followers on Instagram, and 8.9 million likes on TikTok, along with over 8.8 billion views […]
From play-it-safe baby pink to more daring designs, Pinterest is a treasure trove of nail art inspiration. While the app is certainly inspiring, the never-ending number of options is more than a little overwhelming, despite the handy search shortcuts it has introduced (you can now break down your search by […]
In 2021, Tomboy Mani posted a TikTok video that helped spur a viral ADHD self-diagnosis conversation, racking up nine million views (and counting) in the process. You might even have seen it already. It opens with the creator wearing a tie-dye Thrasher T-shirt, pointing to a text bubble over their […]
