Social media users were critical of the US clothing company pushing diet bars on their largely young female clientele, and fuelling unhealthy body image.
Anxiety is a slow burn that nags away at you, like an ongoing low level of manageable panic. A panic attack seems to erupt out of nowhere and overtakes you.
Rather than asking yourself the question “Am I an alcoholic?”, a better question is “Am I living the life I want, and if not, could alcohol be the reason?”
As I started lifting, I remembered the Vietnamese women who displayed strength in my family, carrying heavy baskets of produce to sell at market, carefully...
When the mania of bipolar disrupted her sleep, my mum would vacuum late at night, while my brother and I sat sleepily on the couch waiting to go to bed.