It’s Sunday self-care time and today is about focusing on your mental health on your own terms. We’ve rounded up the most important mental health reads and tips for you.
MacArthur Genius: Shailaja Paik is the first Dalit person to be awarded the MacArthur Fellowship. She is a Research Professor of History at University of Cincinnati who has focuses on the intersection of caste, gender and sexuality in the lives of Dalit women in modern India.
Happy Birthday, Rekha: Bollywood’s timeless icon turns 70. Check out her top 5 movies.
Pattern Beauty’s Hair Steamer has launched and reviews are that its a dream for natural hair.
K-Beauty news:
Then I Met You has launched in Sephora in the US.
I Dew Care, which is a K-beauty brand for Gen Z, has launched in Walgreens in the US.
COSRX has launched The Alpha-Arbutin 2 Skin Discoloration Serum which encourages faster spot healing and has soothing ingredients.
U Beauty has launched the Resurfacing Flash Peel ($188) which is a rapid chemical exfoliation.
Bloating and cramping can be caused by a whole group of factors not just one single thing and ayurvedic experts recommend foods to avoid such as too much high-fibre food, gluten, dairy, raw salads and foods to embrace such as cinnamon and ghee.
Happy Birthday Ashanti: It was Ashanti’s birthday last week and we’re listening to her self-titled album, Ashanti, on loop. Nostalgic vibes only.
Port Antonio: J.Cole’s latest drop which has his thoughts on the Drake & Kendrick Lamar beef over the last year.
Take a Beat Hub: Spotify’s hub for wind-down music is perfect when everything gets a little too much.
Tías and Primas: An audiobook written and narrated by Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez the author of For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts.
Franchise: Himesh Patel leads this TV show going behind the scenes of a super-hero movie.
The Last of the Sea Women: A moving documentary about the Haenyeo divers of South Korea's Jeju Island who have been free-diving (without oxygen) to harvest seafood for centuries. A collaboration project between film-make Sue Kim and Malala Yousafazai.
How to protect your peace: A guide to how women of colour can protect their peace in trying environments.
When you can’t just quiet quit: For many people in the workplace, it’s not an option to just quiet quit. Here’s a guide on how to handle burnout when you can’t just switch off work.
Micro-meditation: Sometimes, trying to schedule long meditation sessions means meditation doesn’t happen at all. Your solution? Micro-meditations - short bursts which really help to relax you.
Learn how to rest: Resting is not just sleeping or bingeing on a TV show. Here are the 7 different types of rest you should engage in.
Learn to do nothing: We live in the productivity hacking era so this is hard for most of us so invest some time in doing nothing, whatever that means for you.
Lying flat: A trend from millenials and Gen Z in China 躺平 (Tángpíng) in Chinese, emerged in 2021 where ppl were taking a personal stance against the relentless demands of modern life (such as the 996 working hour system in China). To this day, Chinese youth are moving out of cities and embracing a more passive, low-desire attitude to life and not chasing material success.
