I caught up with Sara Chana Silverstein, master herbalist, classical homeopath and general all-round superwoman about her new book, Moodtopia. The book is a beautiful handbook about how to manage and control our moods, with tips and tricks to help you get back to your best self with nature’s best medicine. Detailed without being too […]
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It's hard work to be healthy, especially if you're a busy Londoner under a lot of stress. Looking after your mental health and well-being is crucial to staying happy and balanced in life. Healthy Living London offers advice and reviews on doing just that.
An Interview with Adiba and Ghazal from Inhere Meditation
Helping Londoners ‘stop, pause and hear themselves again’, HLL headed down to the Inhere meditation studio to meet up with Adiba and Ghazal, and learn more about the holistic benefits meditation can offer the body, mind and spirit. ‘Inhere’ means to ‘exist within’. Most people live busy lives and the element of self-care can often […]
Q & A With Peter Lang, Recovering Alcoholic and Drug Addict
When your vices turn into something more, and you can’t see past your next ‘fix’, you’re considered addicted. An addict is, as defined by the Cambridge English Dictionary, ‘a person who cannot stop doing or using something, especially something harmful‘. Addiction destroys lives and yet it’s something which can happen to anyone, regardless of race, […]
Hannah’s Top Picks From The Mindful Living Show In London
The Mindful Living Show in London offers an opportunity to learn more about mindfulness and the plethora of ways in which we can be more mindful. There are many different aspects to being mindful; whether it is to focus on ourselves and re-centre with practices such as mediation or yoga, or to think about the way […]
Emotional Recovery Time: how to leave negative emotions behind as quickly as possible
Stephanie, an energy ‘cleaner’ who has helped many people overcome periods of challenge and stagnation through a variety of alternative therapies, explores the concept around ’emotional recovery time’. It’s normal for us to have negative reactions to things which happen to us, but how can we move on from them as quickly as possible and […]
An Interview with Erin Niimi, author of Japonisme
At Healthy Living London, we absolutely love books. Even more so when they’re written by those we’ve met and follow on Instagram. So it was pretty darn exciting when we discovered that Erin Niimi, who we’d met several years ago at a food event, had her debut book out, Japonisme, on 19th April. We couldn’t […]
The Importance of Breathing
It’s sound ridiculous to have an article entitled The Importance of Breathing, especially when it’s something which we do automatically, right? Wrong. Even though we often breathe without being aware of the act, we’re missing out on the benefits of breathing consciously. How we breathe can greatly improve our mental and physical state and it’s […]
How To Tell If You Have Balanced Hormones
We spoke with Nutritional Therapist, Nicki, about happy hormones and just what balanced hormone signs are. Hormones operate on a fine balance and so many things can knock them off kilter but how do we even tell? It’s likely we have days or weeks, or months, or even years where we don’t feel so great, […]
Simple Technique for Emotional Stress Release
Regardless of where or how we live, it’s likely that we’ll all experience emotional stress at some point in our lives. Many of us take this for granted and dismiss this, but what if there was a way to help release this? Stephanie, an energy cleaner, has put together her simple technique for emotional stress […]
Five Exercises to Release Tension Caused by Sitting at a Desk All Day
Sitting at a desk all day is not only bad for your health but can lead to tense, hunched shoulders and also back pain. So what’s the antidote? With almost 90,000 deaths a year caused by inactivity during 9 to 5 office jobs, the advice is to exercise for an hour per day to offset […]