Health and Depression
Body dysmorphic Disorder - BDD advice
BDD advice: Body Dysmorphic Disorder isn't about feeling spotty and fat - it's about not leaving the house for months in case people laugh. We look at BDD causes, symptoms, treatments and tips.
All-nighter tiredness tips
Tiredness tips: How to successfully pull an all-nighter and make it through the next day with this rather helpful advice to combat tiredness.
Philips wake-up light for winter SAD
Winter SAD tips: If you wake up grumpy in winter, it could be partly because of your cruel alarm. The Philips wake-up light wakes you gently with high lux-rating light and the music of your choice to beat those winter blues...
Surviving the party season
Health tips: Autumn months are packed with parties. By the time New Year is over, you'll be screaming for a Friday night in. These tricks will help you look and feel your best in party.season.
Eating disorders and the gothic community
Eating disorders: The media is obsessed with our shape and dieting extremes are splashed all over the tabloids. The spotlight is on weight, whether it's the emaciated or the morbidly obese. Subcultures focus on breaking free of mainstream boundaries in favour of personal freedom. But, when it comes to weight, are subcultures subject to their own internal pressures? Has alternative culture escaped the madness?
S.A.D. - winter depression tips
Winter depression: You probably know someone with S.A.D. or Seasonal Defective Disorder, more commonly known as winter depression. We look at a few ways of easing up those winter blues.
Hangover Tips and hangover Cures
Hangover cures:
Check our hangover tips for
before, during and after boozing to
minimise the possible damage to your body and pride.
Manic depression
Bipolar disorder: Lots of people are afraid of what they don't understand. Manic depression is one of those things. Emma has what doctors term a bipolar disorder. This is how one manic depressive has learned to live with being touched with fire.
Read: Touched with fire
Natural cures for depression
Winter depression tips: We all have times - especially in winter - when we are frayed at the edges and feel as pooky as a chicken in a basket. Mookychick explores a host of natural remedies for winter blues and SAD.
How to get new feet
Foot treatment: Our feet carry us through the world. Literally. This gorgeous intensive foot treatment will make you feel like you just brought a new pair of feet to match the shoes.
Read: How to get new feet
Pregnancy symptoms they don't tell you about
Pregnancy symptoms: Morning sickness isn't the half of it. Pregnancy symptoms include anything from vaginal discharge to piles, heartburn and pooing in labour. Let's deal with some of those pregnancy nasties.
How to love your gorgeous, goddessy belly (and other body parts)
Body image:Feeling a lack of body confidence about your belly? Feeling fat and ungoddessy? It's time to take control, from body magic rituals to creative photography and retraining your well-meaning friends. These are some body image tips you really won't have seen before...
Read: How to love your gorgeous, goddessy belly (and other body parts)
A girl's guide to cheap exercise and working out
Body: Useful exercise tips for working out. How to beef up on a budget - with DIY tips and online resources to help you exercise for cheap.
Mooky guide to (cheaply) weaning your baby
Alternative pregnancy: Weaning is something mommas-to-be often get excited about. Teaching your baby to eat foody not booby is something you can photograph and Facebook all your friends with. The reality is messier.
Toxic beauty: How hidden chemicals in cosmetics can harm you
Alternative Beauty:Ever wanted to dye your hair pink? Hair salonista Anya Goy says THE most popular alternative hair colour request is for pink hair, so you're not alone. Pink hair is like the blonde hair of the alternative world. Why? Because they's both gots binga-banga-bing-bong sex appeal! We look at the whys and wherefores of pink hair and what pink hair dye says about you...
Toxic beauty: How hidden chemicals in cosmetics can harm you
Pregnancy symptoms - the embarrassing bits
Health: There are some good things about pregnancy - the end result, nice people letting you have their seat on buses, and partners so worried that you might explode in a gush of hormones that they do your bidding willingly. However there are some pregnancy symptoms you might not be so keen on. Read on - even if you're not up the duff, pregnancy symptoms are interesting stuff!
Morning sickness - natural remedies and cures
Holistic health: Morning sickness is one of the first signs of pregnancy and most mothers-to-be will get some form of it. Mookychick strides forth proudly to present mooky mommas with some natural remedies and cures for this blighted and unwelcome visitor.
Pregnancy symptoms - the embarrassing bits
Health: There are some good things about pregnancy - the end result, nice people letting you have their seat on buses, and partners so worried that you might explode in a gush of hormones that they do your bidding willingly. However there are some pregnancy symptoms you might not be so keen on. Read on - even if you're not up the duff, pregnancy symptoms are interesting stuff!
How to be a fun, gluten-free goddess and get away with it
Holistic Health: If you're gluten-free it means that food containing wheat, barley, and other glutinous things is out to get you like a bad horror film. If the queen of nectars no longer gently covers the food-digesting intestines of your stomach, we have the perfect guide to living on a gluten-free diet and still feeling like a fun-filled godess of foodiciousness.
How to cure winter colds and flu
Body and Beauty: Could you pass Kerz a tissue? She's got flu. The good news is she ended up sat in bed looking over some old fashioned wives' tales on how to cure it and some initially dull - until you get what they're on about - scientific papers. Now she's on the mend, here are her tips and wives' tales on how to avoid cold and flu in winter...
Wake me up... How to deal with a monday morning
Body and Beauty: There are good ways and bad ways to wake up. The bad way makes the thought of leaving the nice, warm safety of your bed worse than fighting off an army of clawed chav-bears. Theses 8 tips will make sure you wake up in a good mood and stay that way.
How to eat fruit. The sexy way.
Body: Eating fruit for your 5 a day is a soulless way to go about filling your body with beauty. It's much nicer to eat fruit as a meditation on how wonderful, sticky and enriching life can be. Use sight, smell, touch and taste to turn eating fruit into something rather extraordinarily beautiful. Today, yes, fruit. Tomorrow... the world.
How to be a healthy vegetarian
Body: Vegetarian? Thinking about it? When vegetarians choose to deny themselves part of what's considered a normal balanced diet, can they make up for the change? Forget ethics and look after yourself with this handy guide to a healthy vegetarian diet. We'll leave looking after your conscience to you.
Sexual health checkups: The positives
Body: An STI checkup at a sexual health clinic need not be a grim experience. As women are apparently supposed to get a cervical exam once a year, Holly-Rae Smith has written about her own positive experience to put some minds at ease.
Skin purgatory: Psoriasis
Body: Want a strange kind of body confidence? Get psoriasis, says Kate Morrison. This sexy little skin disease will ensure that you will never again angst over your love handles, your weird feet or chunky calves. Because you'll be far too worried about covering up.
Recharge tips for mooky mommas
If you're a mooky momma building up a tribe from scratch, it could be that you don't always got your sparkle on. These 10-minute tips will go a long way to getting back on the case once you've put the babies to bed.
Hypnotherapy: The Big Smoke
With Britain signed up for a smoking ban in all public enclosed spaces, people are either in the process of building a Depression-era 'smokeasy' in their basement or figuring out how to quit the habit. Veteran smoker E_Diva checks out hypnotherapy to see if it really can make you stop smoking...
Party pills - health guide
A new generation of drugs have appeared on the dance scene over the last two years. They are available from shops and hyped as a safe, legal alternative to ecstasy. But are they as safe as the hype makes out?
Legal party drugs vs. illegal recreational drugs - who wins?
Get healthy skin
Whether you want natural beauty or theatrical drama, you'll need skin so translucent friends can see the blue fizzy pop you're drinking go right down your neck.
rsi exercises
You've probably heard of RSI. Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) is caused by repetitive hand movements, like when you use a computer. Here are some nice tips to chase it off - because it's rubbish, it really is.
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