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In the UAE, summer is the time of year when we collectively slow down. School’s out, the events calendar is quiet, and vacations and staycations are on the cards. This means it’s the perfect time to concentrate on your personal well-being.If you’re serious about taking some well-needed time to improve your health and recharge, then a dedicated retreat is the way to go. With that in mind, we round up some of the luxury wellness retreats that are accessible within a seven-hour flight.1. Zoya Health and Wellbeing Resort, UAELocation: Al Zorah, a green district in the emirate of AjmanJourney: About…
Colorado mental health clinic breaks down barriers, advances health equity for minority populations. Axis Integrated Mental Health Clinic, a family-owned mental health clinic in Colorado, offers a variety of therapies to help people with mental health issues. The clinic also prides itself on working with patients regardless of their insurance plan, and even waiving fees for some patients who otherwise wouldn’t be able to afford treatment. One of the therapies the clinic offers to Medicaid patients is transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), a treatment used to treat severe depression. The cost of the treatment ranges from $6,000 to $12,000. In Colorado,…
Mary was no longer able to have sex with her husband of 15 years. The problems began when she found out he was having an affair. He ended it and apologized, but Mary was not moved by his touch the way she used to. Her body did not respond. She had tried reading the Kama Sutra, a famous book on sex styles, and trying new techniques, but nothing worked, so she came to a sexology clinic seeking help. “I want to give myself to my husband and feel intimate and connected like before but unfortunately it’s not working. I bleed…
More and more people are turning to Ayurveda in Kerala for treatment and not just health. And it is no longer a monsoon phenomenon. The association of the monsoon season in Kerala with Ayurveda, Panchakarma and Rasayana highlights the success of the tourism department’s marketing campaign, which has effectively linked the international tourist season with health tourism, particularly healing and rejuvenation through Ayurveda. While Ayurvedic principles have always placed emphasis on building immunity, the concept has gained a lot of traction especially in the post-COVID era, with Ayurvedic doctors pointing out that people are now seeking therapeutic treatments over general…
Vitamin C is considered one of the most effective anti-aging ingredients and is key to maintaining smooth, even, glowing skin. While you may be getting Vitamin C from your diet, you can’t guarantee it’s reaching your skin directly. Using a serum or other topical product is the most direct way to achieve these benefits: La Roche-Posay Pure Vitamin C 10 Serum is one of the best on the market, and it’s just reduced from £45 to £36 at Boots, which is cheaper than buying it at LookFantastic (£45). Formulated with pure Vitamin C to help reduce the appearance of fine…
Robin Goodall: Examining Our Spiritual Attitude Released on Friday, July 5, 2024 at 8 p.m. Robin Goodall’s EN(dur)ANCE Robin Goodall I spent last week at the Wilderness Prayer Center both as Area Director (cleaning up the flooded basement, cooking, hosting/serving, working with the help of amazing volunteers) and as a respite. I am not great with “pause” time, and yet, dare I say, I need it. One day we had a prayer meeting with people from Iowa, Wisconsin, South Dakota, and within 100 miles of Wells. I was the facilitator and walked in and out, observing people who were truly…
Christopher Bloomfield was shot and killed by two RCMP officers while under the influence of hallucinogens. The 2018 death of Christopher Bloomfield at his Vancouver Island home is a homicide, and police need more help in circumstances like the one in which he died. The jury investigating the police shooting of a Mill Bay man who was drugged and “delirious” at the time of the incident has reached these conclusions following a coroner’s inquest which has also recommended the deployment of additional mental health liaison teams to the police force. In a verdict handed down in a Victoria courtroom on…
Cologneauthor: Kathleen JamiePage 13: 9781914502002the publisher: Book Type Guideline Price: £9.99Kathleen Jamie wrote her first book of poetry at age 19, which won the Eric Gregory Prize, and subsequent collections of poems and essays have come to be regarded as classics of environmental literature. Now at age 60 and no longer seduced by the sublime, she looks back at her parents’ receding backs and ponders the future she will pass on to her children, a prospect fraught with uncertainty.”Life moves, but it also spirals,” she writes in the introduction to Cairn. In this book she revisits the themes and places…
A White City, Saskatchewan family is raising awareness about youth mental health following the death of their son last month. Lincoln West, 17, died June 15 in a single-vehicle accident outside of town. His parents, Debbie and Rick, remember their son as a loving, caring teenager who was passionate about sports. “He loved watching and playing sports,” his mother said. “Lincoln was a very caring kid. He had a great sense of humor.” “He always said, ‘I just want to make people laugh,'” Debbie added. “[Lincoln] “He was so competitive,” Rick said with a laugh. “Every time he lost, he’d…
“Nightflyers” by Tiya Miles Penguin/TNS The subject of scholarly books, graphic novels and Hollywood movies, Harriet Tubman is widely known by elementary school children as well as viewers of public television documentaries, and her image will likely be etched in the wallets of millions of Americans in coming years as her portrait replaces Andrew Jackson’s on the $20 bill. What else can be said about such a well-known historical figure? A lot, in fact. In her insightful “biography of faith,” Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dream of a Free People, Tiya Miles focuses on a lesser known aspect…