Is Red Light Therapy The Holy Grail?

I’ve had my fair share of use with red light therapy devices years back when it was all the rage in social media as influencers showed off their healthier skin and glowing vibes with the consistent use of those home led-light masks. Personally, I found that it helped reduce the appearance of blemishes, healed my…

Unreleased Journal Entries: All The Things I Learned from 2022

They say history repeats itself. Tell me a better way of recording history, if not to write it down in the moment. I’ve been keeping a journal since 2012 and it has greatly improved the quality of my life and how I am trying to live my days as I get the chance to sit…

MAKING SPACE FOR YOUR LIFE

The advent of social media and hyper-connectedness have brought constant stimulation in our lives, that it’s starting to be problematic and difficult for our overly stimulated brains to shut down. How do we then navigate this ‘new reality’ where information, data and everything we could possibly want lies on the tip of our fingertips? My…

Achieving Work-Life Balance for Men

As a man, I know how challenging it can be to maintain a work-life balance. It’s not easy to juggle a demanding job, a family, and personal responsibilities. However, it’s essential to strive for a healthy balance in order to avoid burnout and maintain a fulfilling life. In this article, I’ll share practical tips and…

Unlocking the Secrets to Men’s Mental Health

As a man, I know firsthand how challenging it can be to prioritize my mental health. Society often encourages us to suppress our emotions and tough it out, but this can have serious consequences on our overall well-being. In this article, I’ll explore the importance of men’s mental health, the signs and symptoms of poor…

Fail-proof Way to Use Niacinamide

What is Niacinamide The water-soluble vitamin B3 compound nicotinamide, also known as Niacinamide, is used to treat a variety of skin issues, including enlarged pores, uneven skin tone, ageing skin, and weakening skin barriers. Niacinamide “can be produced in almost all body cells, where it is integrated into Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide (NAD) and Nicotinamide Adenine…

Why Comparing Yourself to Others is Harmful

Everyone can always change whenever they want, but the start of the new year is a really great time to build new habits and prune away old ones that just doesn’t work. Fresh starts and clean slates are good catalysts to help us reflect on how we are living our lives internally, so that we…

How a Skincare Routine Solves Your Problems

Productive habits, structure and routine are the mainstays if you want to achieve big and lasting changes in any aspect of your life- and yes, it applies in your skincare too! While fads and trends come and go, having a consistent skincare routine will make a huge impact in how your skin looks and how…

Do I Need Green Tea to be Fit and Healthy?

Green tea is that ultimate healthy drink that you can include your diet to be fit, well and healthy! It can increase your productivity, mental health and life outlook without the jitters from coffee!

Creating Motivation to be Happy on Mondays

Now that another week has begun, I basically just read some of the articles, books, and journals I’ve been putting off, wrote, slept, worked out, ate, and slept during the long weekend (thanks to the Monday Labor Day Holiday!) I was lacking all motivation to do any “productive stuff”. I felt like I didn’t accomplish…

Nature Heals: Clay Masks Benefits

Have you ever felt that sometimes life can get out of hand, if not most of the time? If so, the daily stress and challenges that we encounter everyday shows up on our skin in the form of wrinkles, blemishes and dull complexion. Some of these skin changes are part of the normal ageing process,…

Media Fasting : The Antidote to a Weary and Restless Life

Recently I took a break from work and spent my time with family and loved ones, this entailed driving for hours, sitting in parks, appreciating gardens, eating berries and media fasting. In one of these moments I had this so called epiphany that helped me to live a better life, or at least had changed…

How to Break Free From Mental Chatter

Every healthy human being has this internal stream or train of thoughts and feelings that might range from happiness, achievement, hope, down the range of other ones like being self-conscious, fearful and doubtful. The mind that we have is one of evolution’s greatest gift to us in a sense that we can use our brains…

Are Moisturizers the Ultimate Skinsaver?

There exists a plethora of skincare products in the market, must we add one more layer? Especially the thicker and sticky ones like moisturizers or creams? If I tell you that moisturizers or creams are important to keep the moisture and elasticity of the skin, help reduce fine lines, wrinkles and age spots, will it…

Why Retinol is the New Skincare Grail

The society that we are living puts a lot of premium on how we look, dress and act, and being social creatures we are not exempt from the prying eyes of even the souls we have not met before. Yves Saint Laurent once said that fashions fade, but style is eternal and even though we…

How To Be Mentally Resilient

When we swipe left and right or up and down the various media we are exposed to everyday, we might feel overwhelmed to see that there’s always something wrong happening be it in our local community or to some far-flung area on other points of the Earth. There might be days that on a personal…

Finding Pleasure in Writing

Keeping a journal has been a good tool for me to reach where I am right now, it’s where my most vulnerable thoughts, fears, goals, aspirations are all written down. Sometimes I’m surprised with how the words flow easily when I write it down as I’m able to imprint on the paper thoughts or ideas that I wouldn’t have said out loud, nor sometimes admit. But there it is, a concrete proof of whatever is happening inside my head, albeit disorganized from time to time.

Overcoming Depression: How to Find Life

The pressure and monotony that we feel from life can sometimes feel overwhelming and demotivating, it’s as if we’re always looking for that silver lining that marks the day when things just goes perfectly. Sadly, I don’t think that that day will come. But instead we have to build our resilience and persist through this…

Importance of Creating Stress Buffers

We know that times are tough and based on how things are looking, it may take a further dive as the years go by; couple that up with the fact that we have our own personal aspirations and work responsibilities to live by to create a perfect concoction that leads to feeling overwhelmed. Thus, it…