3 Dec 2024
Health
Essentials Health

Traveling in Europe? Got your Insurance Card?

If you are planning on traveling in Europe this summer – check out the YLC lowdown on the European Health Insurance Card.

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Health Lifestyle Sports and Fitness

Move and Mingle: Unusual Recreation in Stockholm

Weather or work raining on your parade? Stay healthy and happy with one of YLC’s suggestions for odd, fun recreational classes!

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Family Activities Health Sports and Fitness What's on: Stockholm

Get your sweat on! Top Running Events of 2014

Sick of Stockholm’s running trend? Well if you can’t beat them – JOIN THEM! We list the top running events of 2014 in the city!

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Community Essentials Family Health Tourist Information

Sweden’s Summer Scourge: the Tick

That’s right, people, the ‘fästing’ fest is going on – and you might just be invited!

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Crossfit Health Sports and Fitness

Let’s get training! The 30 Day Challenge – Week 2

We are one week into our training program. Hopefully you are motivated, feeling good and happy about what you are achieving – a healthier you! Making smart choices shouldn’t be a burden but a privilege, so be proud!. Speaking of smart – let’s set some smart goals for ourselves. How often hasn’t it happened that […]

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Crossfit Health Sports and Fitness

Let’s Get Training: The 30 Day Challenge!

You survived the holidays but now your jeans are too tight and you feel like you’re carrying around an extra skinka. Well, it’s a new year, which means new starts and new resolutions – or maybe just the desire to get back that fabulous shape you had before multiple visits to the julbord and enough champagne […]

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Introducing… John Sjölund, inventor and entrepreneur

Having co-created a device that makes life easier and safer for those with diabetes, he’s taking the medical world by storm

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Community Expat Support General Counselling Health Swedish Culture Work & Money

Expats and Mental Health: Two Scoops of Culture Shock

Ever feel like the sore thumb in Sweden? This week, YLC’s mental health expert, Lysanne Sizoo, discusses the difficulties associated with simultaneously adjusting to another culture and a new work environment abroad. Photo: Lena Granefelt/imagebank.sweden.se So you’ve found a job in Sweden, made the move, and started work. Grattis! If everything is going swimmingly, then […]

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Community Couples Counselling Expat Support Health

Expats and mental health: The ‘Second Day Blues’

This week, Lysanne Sizoo explores why many couples experience the ‘second day blues’, when one half returns weary from a trip abroad only to be faced with disgruntled grumbles and a list of chores.   My father was naval officer and my mother a very independent and self-sufficient naval officer’s wife. She told me, “When your […]

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Essentials Health Pregnancy & Baby

Parenting +46: Pregnancy and parenthood in Sweden

Pregnant in Stockholm or bringing your bump to the city? Congratulations on your choice!

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