If camomile tea, mindfulness, and yoga haven’t quite hit the spot, ASMR may be the soothing mental tonic you’re looking for…
All tagged self-care
The coping mechanisms many of us have for when our mood is low, feel out of date. Life in lockdown is really hard – and a decline in mental health feels inevitable. To try and counteract that we have written some tips to help you through!
It’s Brexit Day (boo) but it’s FINALLY the end of January (yay). To celebrate (and commiserate) this rather momentous occasion, Rose Collard takes a look back at some of the things she’s learnt on the long road to 2020.
It’s pretty trendy to trash the concept of self-care these days. But in a culture defined by gender pay gaps and the cult of male stoicism, prioritising our needs can be a feminist act. So let’s reinvent self-care this decade and give ourselves the space to define what we really need - and how to get there.
Everyone has those days where everything feels rubbish. Getting out of bed is hard, getting out of your pyjamas is hard and so is just about everything else that could possibly be labelled as productive – from talking to other humans, right down to basic bodily hygiene (it’s gross, but we’ve all been there). To help on those grey days, Harpy has made a little list to get you through.
Summer has arrived with a sweaty sigh. Between the never-ending Love Island coverage and the trauma that is swimwear shopping (just buy it online!), it’s easy for our insecurities to bloom and fester. Everywhere we look there are tips for shrinking, tanning, polishing, and concealing.