Ruqayyah Hussain

The quarter-life crisis: are you just being dramatic?

If you’ve ever reached out to a grown-up about your struggles with mental health, only to be invalidated and met with condescending remarks like: “You’ve got it easy, just wait till you get to my age” or the age-old remark that all our parents have had the glee of throwing...
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Posted Mar. 17, 2025

National Random Acts of Kindness Day

“A warm smile is the universal language of kindness”, says William Arthur Ward. If you spent this Valentine’s Day alone, eating chocolate you bought for yourself and wallowing that you have a big heart full of love to give but no one to share it with, then wallow no more....
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Posted Feb. 17, 2025

A beginner’s guide to gut health in 2025

As 2025 approached, and I got sucked into the ‘new year, new me’ rabbit hole on social media ‘gut health’ quickly became a buzzword that I saw frequently thrown around. Often cited to promote a powder or supplement, improving your gut health seemed to promise a range of benefits, from...
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Posted Feb. 5, 2025