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Beauty In A Tik
Why People Are Using Glycolic Acid As Deodorant
Jacqueline Kilikita
21 Jun 2023
Healthy Lifestyle Tips
How To Sleep When It’s Unbearably Hot Outside
Cory Stieg
19 Jun 2023
Body
Hourglass Syndrome Sounds Innocuous, But It Left Me With Permanent Damage
Aastha Agrawal
6 Jun 2023
Beauty
I Got My Chest Lasered To Improve My Skin & I Learned A Lot
Outdated phrases such as ‘anti-ageing’ and ‘anti-wrinkle’ are slowly but surely being replaced by healthier, more inclusive ideas.
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Jacqueline Kilikita
Body
What It’s Like To Get A Smear Test When You’ve Never ...
I was not expecting to receive my smear test letter before I turned 25, so when mine fell through the letterbox in mid-March — exactly six months befor
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Mollie Quirk
Body
BMI Can’t Tell The Full Story Of A Person’s Health, S...
I don’t remember as much about being 18 as I probably should, given it was relatively recent. I have far more distinct memories of my early teenage years
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Sadhbh O'Sullivan
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Body
PCOS Cannot Be ‘Cured’ – But TikTok Disagrees
Like many people after receiving a diagnosis of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), Mia*, age 25, was left with more questions than answers. She recalls bein
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Daisy Schofield
Body
I Had A 10cm Ovarian Cyst But Doctors Didn’t Believe Me
When Selling Sunset’s Chrishell Stause and model Hailey Bieber recently revealed they were suffering with ovarian cysts, I knew full well how they felt.
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Lauren Potts
Mind
Self-Harm Is Not ‘Attention-Seeking’, It’s R...
Warning: This article discusses sexual assault, abuse and self-harm in a way that may be distressing to some readers. “It got to the point where I co
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Ellie Broughton
Body
Period Positivity Defined The 2010s. Did It Deliver?
In January, the period underwear brand Thinx settled a class-action lawsuit which alleged that Thinx products contain harmful chemicals, specifically PFAS
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Sadhbh O'Sullivan
Body
No One Needs Kourtney Kardashian’s Vagina Detox Gummies
We are in celebrity wellness hell. The other week, Gwyneth Paltrow, actress and founder of wellness brand Goop, made headlines after sharing her worryingly
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Chanté Joseph
Body
The Key To Feeling Confident As A Short Woman, According To A Psy...
My height is not something I tend to sit around and think about all that often. As someone who’s just shy of 5’2″ and not a huge fan of h
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Nina Miyashita
Wellness
Period Flu: The Endometriosis Symptom Your Doctor’s Probabl...
Around 2014 I found myself regularly coming down with classic flu symptoms. A raised temperature, sore throat, aching limbs, heavy fatigue and sore lymph n
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Lisa Sinclair
Body
Everything I Wish I’d Known About Breast Reduction
The unspooled roll of hospital paper dulls the coldness on my back as I lie on the bed, waiting for expert hands to weigh up the scale of my disproportiona
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Aimée Walsh
Wellness
My Rare Chronic Illness Is Now Viral On TikTok
Mollie, 25, lives with a condition that causes a racing heart, palpitations, intense fatigue, fainting and brain fog. It reduces her ability to stand or wa
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Agnes Arnold-Forster
Wellness
As A Size 20, I’m Troubled By The Term ‘Midsize’
If you’ve been on TikTok recently, you’ve probably been met with countless women referring to themselves as ‘midsize’. The #midsize hashtag has ama
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Sienna Barton
Body
I Changed My Contraception To Save My Relationship
“I have turned into someone I don’t recognise, someone who falls into fits of rage over the slightest things, who is so irritable and self-centred,
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Beth Ashley
Body
Everything That Happened When I Came Off The Pill After 6 Years
I went on the contraceptive pill when I was 17 without knowing much about what it would do to my body. I’d see my friends pull out the plastic packets du
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Alice Porter
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Body
Being Fat & Pregnant Is Not A Crime
“I had a sonographer pat my stomach and say, ‘It’s difficult to get a clear picture because of this,’ meaning the extra weight I have.&
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Sadhbh O'Sullivan
Body
Baby Trapping: Do Women Really ‘Steal’ Sperm?
“I think she saw it as taking matters into her own hands,” says Charlotte*, 33. She is talking about a woman who, two years into her relationsh
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Zoe Beaty
Voices of Disability
Sometimes I’m Fine, Often I’m Not: My Life With Dynam...
Yesterday I spoke at an event in front of hundreds of people. For hours I wandered around the event space, climbing endless stairs and drinking wine with f
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Catriona Morton
Fitness
Working Out Doesn’t Have To Be Exhausting To Be Worth It
You’d be forgiven for thinking that the best way to get fit (or exercise at all) is to exhaust yourself. Phrases like ‘no pain, no gain’,
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Sadhbh O'Sullivan
Wellness
Wellness Culture Won’t Save Us. It’s Only Making Us M...
The wellness industry may be a relatively recent mainstream phenomenon but it is far from new. The term ‘wellness’ was popularised back in the
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Sadhbh O'Sullivan
Wellness
Body Positive Content Can Be A ‘Micro-Intervention’ For Self-Este...
A new study has found that content on social media about body positivity and body neutrality has the ability to improve body image in young women. Conducte
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Maggie Zhou
Body
How To Get Doctors To Listen When You’re Being ‘Hyste...
Update: Image changed on 06/01/23 Have you ever come out of a doctor’s appointment feeling frustrated, fobbed off and like the entire endeavour was a col
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Sarah Graham
Wellness
Ask A Therapist: How To Escape The Pressure To Lose Weight This Year
Ever wondered what you’d say to a therapist, given the chance? We asked Dr Sheri Jacobson, a retired psychotherapist with over 17 year
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Sadhbh O'Sullivan
Wellness
My Hair Loss Is Because Of Trauma, Not Cheap Treatments
I have a habit of crying in the shower. The flat I live in lacks internal walls so it is just one long room with separate areas demarcated by rugs and chan
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Hannah Turner
Wellness
How To Break Up With 2022 The Right Way
2022 is nearly done and as December races towards its snowy finale, it’s time to kiss goodbye to this year. There will be parts of us desperate to
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Ellie Broughton
Body
I’m A Grown Woman Who Sits Like A Child. I Bet You Do, Too
As I write this story I have my right leg folded underneath my left on my desk chair. My right ankle is tucked under my left thigh, leaving one foot dangli
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Sadhbh O'Sullivan
Body
What It’s Like To Be Fat At Christmas
“The best bit of Christmas is the food,” my friends tell each other over Yorkshire puddings and honey-glazed parsnips. “I’m going to be
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Gina Tonic
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