22 Dec 2024
Health
Community Health Lifestyle

Best of You relaunch – for a happier and healthier lifestyle!

Best of You relaunched last Saturday with a party filled with music, sparkling wine, pop corn, love and other surprises. During the event, Best of You’s heart and soul, yoga teacher Mo and journalist Henriette presented the team behind Best of You, among them nutritionist Clara, life coach Sandra and personal trainer Frida. Mo and Henriette took the opportunity […]

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Community Essentials Family Health Parenting

A jaggy issue – vaccines in Sweden

I seem to be talking a lot about chicken pox and vaccines at the moment. I guess it’s the age at which S is. It always comes up in conversation with other parents and S’s class seems to have had at least 3 bouts of chicken pox this winter. Fortunately (or, unfortunately depending on how […]

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Health Outdoor Activities What's on: Stockholm Yoga

Ever wondered what the City Hall looks like upside down?

We did. So we checked it out. For 3 years now Dan and his team at Run with Me Stockholm have been building a community for runners living in Stockholm (Join them every Sunday for a run and a fika!) as well as offering “out of the ordinary” guided tours for tourists who packed their […]

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yoga games stockholm mindfullness
Health Yoga

Yoga Games 2017

Call it luck or faith, I happen to live about a 7 min walk from Münchenbryggeriet, where the Yoga Games took place on the weekend of the 10-12 of February. Such a luxury to step out of my apartment and have access to so much yoga knowledge !  I truly appreciated that when my alarm […]

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Health Sports and Fitness Yoga

Yoga Games face on!

When you are a yoga geek and told you are given a ticket to the Yoga Games in Stockholm starting today, I can only assume that is how Charlie felt when discovering his Golden ticket: pure excitement. I must admit I am still trying to keep up with the amount of Yoga events happening in […]

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Expat Support Family Family Activities Health Parenting Pregnancy & Baby

Fab VAB

It’s FEBRUARY!! Or, as parents in Sweden like to call it, VABruary… This month has honestly put me off having more children. Like an annual contraceptive. I can’t stand it, I’m moving to Antigua next February. Today is day ten of illness in our home and I’m freaking out that this is it, we’re in a spiral of sickness for the rest […]

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Community Family Health Parenting

Top 5 strategies to help children adapt to their world and thrive

We live in an incredibly stressful and distracted world. According to current statistics, 1 in 10 children are diagnosed with a mental illness and data shows that this is on the rise.* Not only do we have this alarming situation with children’s mental health, our world also has many new complex issues that require great […]

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Community Health

FIGHTING S.A.D

Whether we like it or not, summer ended and autumn is here.  Autumn is actually not that bad when you think about it, it’s all about brown and orange leaves, pumpkins, spices and hot chocolate (with marshmallows)! However, with the colder weather and the lack of light it is important to listen to your body and […]

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Books Culture Health

Interview: Christian Åkerlund, writer and psychologist

Psychologists have a professional training and clinical skill to help people learn to cope more effectively with life issues and mental health problems. They work with indivi­duals, families and groups. Most people who initiate counseling do not have a serious mental illness. They have life challenges or are going through difficult life-cycle transitions that may […]

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Health Parenting

Dwarfism and moving to Stockholm

“Why Sweden?” – This is usually the very first question anyone ever asks me when they find out that I’m Scottish and my fiancé is also Scottish. It seems like moving to Sweden without having a Swedish partner or job is not the normal thing. I find this a confusing attitude, I mean, why not?

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