The Fine Line Between Self-Care And Self-Sabotage
Nilufer Hajra
Growing up, we are taught how to care for others and not be selfish. While doing that, sometimes, we find ourselves in a miserable state and feel alone. It’s why…
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How Eating Disorders Can Swallow You Whole
Natasha Mitter
The Wellness Insider has explored the issues of emotional eating, binge eating and body image intimately over the last few months. If you’ve been reading our articles, you might have…
Grooming Plus Sized Beauties for Pageant and Confidence
Melissa Fann
(Left to right) Last year’s winner, Jodel Padao Mesina, the newly crowned Ms Top of the World Plus Size, and 2016’s winner Fiona Tan Held at Cebu, Philippines, the crown…
17 Facts About Body Image and Eating Disorders
There are many assumptions about body image as well as eating disorders, but what are facts and what are just stereotypes? Here are 17 facts about both that we hope…
The Food Binge Battle
Following on from our articles on emotional eating and body acceptance and love, we explore the link between dieting and emotional eating a little more. We now know that emotional…
Why A Book on Body Confidence?
We’ve mentioned that we’re in the midst of compiling body positive interviews with notable personalities as part of our second anniversary. However, besides celebrating ourselves and trying to promote body…
The Ups and Downs of Emotional Eating
In the simplest terms, emotional eating is eating to feed your emotional needs rather than your physical ones. It was initially defined as eating in response to negative emotions, but…
Body Love and Body Acceptance
It does not take a genius to realise that our culture is obsessed with achieving the proverbial “ideal body”. We are bombarded daily with images of skinny models with flawless…
10 Steps to Treat Yourself Better
The world is moving at such a fast pace these days that it’s hard to keep up. There seems to be no time for things that we regard as trivial,…
When Fashion Meets Formula 1
Shaameli Nadarajah
With a host of fabulous F1 parties and other fringe activities happening all over Singapore as we gear up for one of the nation’s most coveted events of the year.…
