Our Health and Wellbeing section of The Collective Magazine captures the essence of what it means to live a healthy life. Discussing everything from mental health and self care, to keeping physically healthy through food recipes and workout ideas.
Are the ’21st of June’ Marketing Ploys harming our Expectations, or is it the glimmer of hope we all need right now?
By Claudia Birch A few days ago, the Prime Minister announced the government’s plan to ease lockdown restrictions across the UK. This plan informed the public that if all goes accordingly, we will return to our ‘normal’ lives by the 21st of June; this includes foreign travel, the reopening of nightclubs, festivals and the return…
5 Stages Of Lockdown (Grief)
By Anna Dugdale ‘Lockdown’ is a word that was non-existent to our vocabulary up until 2020, so how has it become part of our daily conversation to say that we’re slowly coming out of our third Lockdown, a year after when it first began. In the lockdowns that the UK has faced so far, we…
Do Not Equate The Fetishisation Of Black Women With Body Positivity
By Ellie Philips In 2019, Zadie Smith remarked that we are all ‘trapped in this flesh cage’. For no-one, perhaps, is this more true than for the black woman. The black female body has long been denied the privilege of neutrality. The Mammy, Jezebel and Sapphire stereotypes point to how the identities of black women…
Fallow Periods: The Importance of Rest
By Anna Dugdale Feeling burnt out and having no energy is such a common thing, and it’s so easy to feel guilty about taking time off. But while we withstand another lockdown, the ongoing difficulties of working or studying from home means taking time for yourself is more important than ever. Relaxation plays a significant…
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Lauren Bromley-Bird – Health and Wellbeing Editor
Lauren is a Psychology graduate from Sheffield Hallam University and an aspiring advice columnist. While studying, she gained a wealth of health and wellbeing knowledge that she wants to share with The Collective Magazine community and aims to create a positive space for readers to seek advice and relate to. If we were not in lockdown, her spare time would be spent watching West End musicals, but in the meantime, it’s spent overindulging in buckets of hot chocolate and Netflix.
