Is exposure to a 24-hour news cycle doing more harm than good? There’s no escaping the 24/7 news cycle. Television, radio, push-notifications, live billboards, trending hashtags and Twitter moments; in 2018, we’re getting bad news faster than ever before. But, surely, there’s a limit how much…
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Kathryn Wheeler
Kathryn is the Acting Editor at Happiful magazine.
Romantic Activities For a Non-Commercial Valentine's Day
Love hearts and roses aren’t for everyone. This Valentine’s Day, do things your way With every other shop window decked out in anything red and heart-shaped, and radio stations playing love songs on repeat, it’s hard to escape the materialistic monster that Valentine’s Day has become.…
Happiful Partners with the Mindful Living Show 2018
With more than 50 workshops, seminars, and teachings, the second annual Mindful Living Show is set to be a day to remember For the second year running, Happiful magazine is delighted to announced its partnership with the Mindful Living Show [http://www.mindfullivingshow.com/mindfulliving2018/en/page/home]. The show,…
Charity Urges Us to Talk Mental Health at Work
We’d rather talk to colleagues about sex than our mental health – survey A Time to Change [https://www.time-to-change.org.uk/] survey of 2,000 British workers asked participants to select topics they would be comfortable talking about with colleagues, from a list provided. Results revealed that only 13%…
The Clean Kilo: The supermarket with zero waste
We produce nearly 300 million tons of plastic every year, and over half of that is for single-use products - something’s got to change Blue Planet II brought attention to the devastating effect that our plastic addiction is having on the oceans, but back on dry land, plastic buried…
Caffeine-Free Energy Drinks: Can they replace a morning coffee?
80% of the world’s population consumes a caffeinated product each day, so what would it take to give it up? Caffeine is a natural brain and central nervous system stimulant found in tea, coffee, and cocoa plants. While it’s relatively harmless, those with anxiety [https://www.anxietyuk.org.…
What Is Vaguebooking?
Social media gives round the clock updates on people’s lives. So what happens when someone posts something concerning? Of the 360 people I have on Facebook, I’d only call 34 friends. That’s less than 10%. The remaining 90% is a club whose members I picked up on…
Change Please: The cup of coffee that fights homelessness
The ability to change a life could be as simple as where you buy your morning coffee According to statistics from Crisis UK [https://www.crisis.org.uk/], 77% of homeless people want to work now, and 97% want to work in the future. And yet, across the country, only…
The Happiful Workshop: Self-confidence with Callie Thorpe
What happens when six women get together to talk about self-confidence? Author and political activist Gloria Steinem was on to something when she said: “The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.” When Happiful invited readers to attend a self-confidence workshop,…