Features

Feature articles with more background than our other content. All featuring fresh perspectives in life, love and work, as well as how to stay healthy in terms of mind and body.

A colourful meal with vegetables only

The new magical world of vegetable cuisine: An interview with Vegetable Chef Frank Fol

Not so long ago, we might have thought that a plant-based meal was missing something. Or that it was unhealthy. Can we change our views about food? Globally-renowned vegetable chef Frank Fol says we can and we are. Here he tells us about a whole new cuisine of taste, colour and magic: in our best restaurants and in our kitchens at home. A new world, he says, that is here to stay.

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Man with beard stretching arms: am I ageing?

Help, I am over 50! Could we age better if we expect better?

When we reach middle age, we don’t just fear a decline in our minds and bodies, we bank on it. Could this expectation about ageing play a role in how we age? Could we get older better if we expected differently?

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Window reflection of a sensitive looking man in an office

The world of work according to a highly sensitive person: An interview with Dr. Candan Aydemir-Tam

They say our fast-paced world needs highly sensitive people, or HSPs as they are often called. What about the workplace? Can people with this complex and empathetic mind add value here too? Or are they just too sensitive. Dr. Candan Aydemir-Tam, healthcare psychologist, tells us everything.

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Young plant shoot from the ground: something new in healthcare

Something new is emerging: Two British integrative pioneers about the changing health landscape

Should healthcare be either conventional or alternative? According Dr. Toh Wong and Dr. Naveed Akhtar, more and more health practices are combining the best of two worlds. It may still be an usual way of thinking in our time, but here, the two British doctors and integrative pioneers tell us all about the changing health landscape: In both the UK as well as further afield, things are merging.

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Two swans in the sunset, the perfect relationship

Being in a relationship is good, being single is bad: A very persistent story!

Being in a relationship equals growing up. Being single means loneliness and less satisfaction in life. Such beliefs are reflected in the movies we watch, the music we hear, and the conversations we have. Has the time come for another story besides this age-old perspective?

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Sunbeams shining through a rainforest, could you be a sensitive mind

Life as seen by a sensitive Rainforest Mind (RFM)

If humans are like ecosystems, some are like the rainforest, says psychotherapist and author Paula Prober. People with a Rainforest Mind (RFM) are highly complex, sensitive, and intuitive. They may be effervescent, intense, colourful, and they may be the most misunderstood. Here, Paula Prober paints us a picture: the world according to a rainforest mind.

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Birds hovering and standing on ice: mind and body freedom?

Emotional freedom through a process called ‘energy tapping’?

All over the world, there are people who do something they call ‘tapping’. They say the process is helping them free mind and body of all that is in the way of health. More and more scientists are agreeing with them. We take a look at this (self-help) modality, described as a fusion of Eastern, Western, body and mind healing approaches.

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Mouse on a tree trunk

Still running the rat race, or can we change old beliefs?

What is the meaning of work? Is it about a salary, life direction or personal identity? Or about corporate social responsibility and working to live? When it comes to deeply-held beliefs such as about the 9 to 5 rat race, can we change them? Perhaps recent times have shown us that our perspectives are less ”fixed” than we think.

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