Woman and Home Magazine

Meaningful conversation starters can help you deepen your connection with your partner, especially when life gets busy. Between work, family and everything else on your plate, it’s easy to spend whole days talking about nothing but the to-do list. Who is fetching the kids? What’s for supper? Has the bill been paid? 

From career milestones and relationships to picture-perfect homes and dream holidays, it’s easy to feel as though everyone else is getting life right. But constantly measuring your progress against someone else’s can leave you feeling inadequate, even when you have plenty to be proud of.

Long before she built a career in wellness, Monique Pereira was a teenager fascinated by skincare. At 14, while searching for solutions to her own acne, she became fascinated by skincare and the science behind it. Combined with a natural desire to help others feel good about themselves, it sparked a career she has never looked back from.

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Maybe it’s that we don’t truly own things anymore, or perhaps the fast pace of modern life, but physical media is making a comeback. At the very least, people are yearning for simpler times, when we could slow down and engage with media by having a real, sensory experience. 

From overthinking the smallest details to imagining a hundred different possibilities, an anxious mind can sometimes feel like a creative mind that never switches off. But is there a connection between anxiety and creativity, and how can we learn to use our imagination without letting our worries take over?

It’s an interesting contradiction. Anxiety ca...