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A Medium Describes The Moment She Started Receiving Messages From The Dead

From dire warnings to business advice, Erica Korman has heard it all in her time as a medium — a profession she only came to after years of working as a psychotherapist in both clinical and hospital...

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What Does Your "Sex Number" Even Mean In 2018?

For years, sex therapist Vanessa Marin would often see clients who were worried about their "sex number," (the number of people they'd had sex with in their lifetime). Sometimes, the concern was over a...

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Confessions Of Hailey Baldwin's Makeup Artist

Raised by a beauty school dropout, it was written in the stars that makeup artist Vincent Oquendo would find his way to the Instagram feeds of the Hadid sisters and Hailey Baldwin. But the road to...

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Emerging From The Piles: Life As The Child Of A Hoarder

As my other half clears the kitchen table, heaping our children’s books into a pile on the windowsill and placing a bag over the back of a chair, my hackles rise and I immediately move to put the books...

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Three Must-Watch Shows About Female Crime & Punishment In The UK

Beyond the odd statistic here and there, or the little we can infer from shows like Orange Is The New Black, most of us know very little about women and the criminal justice system. Needless to say,...

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Why Dior's New Jewellery Designer Is The One To Watch

You may not be familiar with Korean-American jewellery designer Yoon Ahn yet, but it's time to get to know her. She's kitted out everyone from Rihanna to Kanye with her slick hip-hop-inspired brand...

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The Home Babies: Ireland's Dark Secret Brought To Light In BBC Podcast

On a sunny in Friday in May, we in Ireland voted to Repeal the 8th Amendment to the Constitution (effectively improving reproductive rights and abortion access for women). That night, my friends and I...

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I Swapped All My Skincare For Supermarket Versions & This Is My Verdict

I’m not blessed with good skin. I was blessed with good hair and I have a theory that most mere mortals don’t have both. I had severe acne as a teen, which left me with pigmentation marks and...

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What You Need To Know About Turning Off Google's Location Tracking

The year of privacy and data concerns continues: According to an AP investigation published today, Google continues to store information about the whereabouts of Android and iPhone users, even after...

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This Polly Pocket Fashion Collaboration Is Pure '90s Nostalgia

Our adoration for the ‘90s knows no bounds, and thanks to a sweet new collaboration between British American designer Mimi Wade and Polly Pocket - yup, our most prized plastic childhood possession -...

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What Love Means To 37 Strangers Around The World

Photo: Courtesy of @thesupplychange.Some say it's an open door. Some say it's when a single soul lives in two bodies. And, others say it's an overwhelming physiological response to spending a...

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Why This 22-Year-Old's Candid Post About Childbirth Went Viral

353,000 babies might be born every day, but childbirth remains a mystery to many of us.Two days after Autumn Benjamin gave birth to her daughter, Layla, she felt like she was looking at her life...

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These Ads About Periods Were Designed To Shock & They're Working

For people who have never struggled to afford sanitary products, it can be difficult to comprehend the grim reality of period poverty. A tenth of girls and young women in the UK have struggled to pay...

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How To Come Back From A Depressive Spell

Given that more than 300 million people worldwide have had depression, we're all bound to have vastly different experiences living with it. But for many of us, depression isn't constant — there are...

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What To Do If You Have Wanderlust But Can't Travel

In an ideal world, everyone would be able to travel whenever they wanted to, money and vacation day allotment be damned. But in reality, life gets in the way, no matter how much your friend who...

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Adele Spoke Up About Postpartum Psychosis Recovery

As much progress as we've made in having conversations about maternal health, we tend to forget that mental health is a huge part of the discussion.On Monday, Adele shared her support for her friend...

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Why You Should Think Twice About Buying That Supreme Newspaper

If you’re one of those people who wait in line for sneaker drops, prioritise a flash sale over getting to work on time, or buy cult fashion items just to resell them, then you probably knew that...

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Money Diaries: A Vet In Shropshire On £27k

Welcome to Money Diaries, where we're tackling what might be the last taboo facing modern working women: money. We're asking a cross-section of women how they spend their hard-earned money during a...

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Lola Kirke on Her Music Career, Rejection & Why Drinking Counts As Self-Care

In between mouthfuls of pickled crisps, Lola Kirke talks about the many pressures our culture puts on women. The youngest daughter of British parents (her dad is the rock drummer Simon Kirke) and...

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How To Survive Pregnancy Insomnia

When I fell pregnant, there were many things I was prepared to embrace: oils for stretch marks, skinny jeans with strange pouches for my expanding tummy, a more exciting bra size, cutting out alcohol....

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