Kayleigh Tracy Tudor

Why You Don’t Need a Morning Routine

Everyone has heard of the Monday morning blues - that slight Sunday evening sadness as Monday approaches once again stopping you from living your best life. As each Friday rolls around, we imagine what we will do with our free time at the weekend. Yoga? Hike? Study? There are so many hours to fill, each week I feel I can reinvent myself.

Weekends are what most of us live for, those couple of days where we have no or fewer responsibilities in terms of work,

Are We Confusing Happy with Happiness?

Why ‘Being Happy’ Shouldn’t Be Your Life Goal.

“I just want you to be happy”, with her arms wrapped tightly around my back, my mum squeezed gently and then let go.

“Thanks, I will be”, I responded meekly before awkwardly climbing into the passenger seat of the cold-grey Peugeot 407.

It was a bleak, cloudy but warm August morning in 2016. The car was crammed to the brim of my and my partner’s small collection of worldly belongings. With boxes and hangers

The First Leadership Mistakes I Made in My Career

Many of the articles, books and newsletters I read advise you how to achieve, which way to accomplish something and what you should do to get by in life. Which is great. Yet, my biggest learning curve in life I believe is in learning to reflect on what not to do in a situation — to a greater extent than what I should do.

I qualified in 2014 with a First Class Honours with a promising career ahead. I had already spoken at conferences, had a deep

My promise to my body that I will do better

What we know

We know that sleep is good for us. Generally, we are told that on average seven to nine hours of sleep is what most adults need. We are told that drinking enough water, consuming a healthy diet and getting enough movement outside in daylight hours supports our ability to generate a good night’s sleep. Choosing to needlessly delay sleep has become known as bedtime procrastination and we as a society continue to go to bed late.

Tired, ang

Why would I advise him to do this? The people of Finland have been doing this for hundreds of years. Combining their love of the sauna with the almost unthinkable act of dipping their bodies into an ice-cold lake bath (sometimes even done WITHOUT a sauna). The Finns believe the physical and mental benefits of ice-dipping, outweigh those thirty seconds of initial moments of pain sensations felt throughout the body. Apparently, this is good for you.

I can understand his apprehension, after all th

We Are Failing Our Autistic Community

I am the neurotypical big sister of my little autistic sister, Kirsty. I say little, she’s nearly 30 years old. I have many years of experience working in the community, schools, and hospitals with autistic people — usually with those who have a combined mild, moderate, or severe learning disability. I am a trained, currently non-clinical Occupational Therapist. Kirsty is autistic, she has a severe learning disability and also suffers from epilepsy. She has