Whether you’re worried about a big bill payment, managing a new work from home routine or anxious about the current state of the world, stress is omnipresent right now. While stress—or the fight or flight response—can protect you from danger or making poor…

Whether you’ve always had a green thumb, or you’re working on growing your first houseplant, it’s clear that tilling, planting, nurturing, gardening and harvesting plants can be great to boost your mental health. Just ask Anushka Sharma and Samantha Akkineni, who have taken up…

While home workouts have been keeping us motivated–and fit—during the lockdown, going to the gym to get in your sweat session in is still a whole different experience. “Gyms are basically spaces for enjoying the collective adrenaline rush. Merely looking at someone…

Exercising at home, whether you’re attending virtual at-home workout classes or creating sequences as you go, has become the new normal. While the energy levels might not compare to what you feel in an IRL class or at the gym, you…

When you think about traditional therapy, you’re likely thinking of sitting on a couch with a counsellor and talking through what’s ailing you. While this form of therapy has been proven as an efficient manner to improve your physical and emotional…

When you’re stressed, the adrenal gland releases cortisol to help you combat the emergency at hand. But too much cortisol can impact digestion, gut health, immunity and sleep, all of which can wreak further havoc on the body. While techniques like meditation and yoga have…

If you’ve ever experience a migraine, you know that the throbbing pain, vision changes and nausea mean that it is no ordinary headache. According to the World Health Organisation, it is a disabling condition that can result in keeping you out…

Baking has been a favourite pastime during the lockdown, with banana bread and cheesecake recipes a mainstay on most social media feeds. If you’ve been baking up a storm too, all that taste-testing and then late-night eating can leave you feeling…