Social commentary and essays from career to mental wellbeing, capturing the general WTF of life and topical news, by award-winning author, former HuffPost Exec editor and lifter of heavy weights, Poorna Bell.
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The difference between optimising your time and valuing your time
On living life versus endlessly learning about it
I made the mistake of googling: ‘is time real or a concept’ and following a brief wander into the theory of relativity, quantum physics, the subsequent explosion of my brain, a cup of tea r...
But what about the boys?
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Have your veins ever been filled with so much rage, you worry your epidermis will smoke from the inferno of it all? That is how I feel now, and not because we are in a time of a British heatwave. There are f...
Free writing session - save the date, June 16
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I need to take my own advice around bitterness
On deciding which path to take
When my husband Rob died ten years ago, I remember one coherent thought floating through the murky soup of pain like alphabet spaghetti: you cannot choose bitterness.
Eating with women
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Please note that the piece below does not apply to people who are dealing with eating disorders, and does not aim to be insensitive about it. It aims to address the pervasive vocabulary in diet culture....
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Award-winning author of six books and journalist of 22 years, Poorna writes broadly across women’s issues, cultural analysis, mental wellbeing, love, grief, life, fitness (she's a competitive powerlifter) and everything in between
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