Saturday, April 20, 2024

Five, Four, Three, Two, One: Our Story Picks to Help You Have a Happy New Year

We’ve put together a ‘best of’ from our story collection, for ideas on how to make 2021 the best year ever in every part of your life

How to Beat Burnout and Start the New Year Calm, Connected & Grateful…
Dr Lucy Hone, Director of The New Zealand Institute of Wellbeing and Resilience offers her advice on how to have a calm, connected and grateful summer holidays and also explains why that starts with understanding where we’re all at, mentally, as we reach the end of this difficult year.

Feeling Overwhelmed By The World? Let’s Create A Safe Space Together
While it is very important to be politically educated and informed, there are some days where the best thing you can personally do is put on your own oxygen mask and disengage to a safe space. We put together some calming and gentle content for tiring days.

“We’ve Given Up on Anyone Coming to Save Us. We’re Going to Have to Save Ourselves.” How Sarah Wilson Wrote the Book of 2020
Best-selling author Sarah Wilson talks about finding hope and joy in a difficult world

Saving the World, One Story at a Time – A Climate Change Editor on the Surprising Things You Can Do To Help
There’s never a better time to start helping the planet than right now!

Love
Tinder, Bumble, Hinge – What Dating App Is The Best For Our Shook 2020 Selves?
If this is the year you’re going to give online dating a crack, Kelly has your ultimate guide to finding out which app is for you!

Dating, Desires and Sex on the First Date – A Sexologist’s Top Tips for Finding Love Online
An expert offers up her tips for the online dating world

The Single Woman’s Sexual Self Care Guide – How To Feel Sexy, Confident and Satisfied Solo
*adds all to cart*

Reasons Why Being Single Is Legit Great
There’s never been a better time to be riding solo!

WHERE Are The Novels About Brilliant Child-Free Women? Meg Mason Writes About the Fiction of Motherhood
Not keen on a baby? You are FAR from alone in this!

A Sexpert’s Top 5 Tips for Reconnecting with Your Partner
It’s been a long hard year – time to get back into the love bubble with your plus one

A Guide To Surviving Heartbreak: Aka ‘When You Are Engulfed In Flames’
Going through the hard times right now? WE HAVE BEEN THERE and we can help take you to the other side!

It’s the End of the World As We Know It – Debating Motherhood in a Pandemic-Filled Year
Babies! They’re cute, confusing and expensive – no wonder so many of us feel so conflicted about having them!

Feel-good vibes, baby!

In Praise of Thighs: How Pop Culture is Slowly Shifting the Beauty Norm
The antidote to any hot nonsense you’ve been reading about having a g*ddamn beach body

30, Flirty and Thriving? Why I’m Happy I’m Single, Childless and Cynical in 2020
It’s like Sex and the City but on a realistic freelance writer’s budget!

Cashing in the Carte Blanche: Finding Freedom in Change
No rules, no expectations – this is the year to do whatever the heck you want.

Self-talk School: Why Your Negative Inner Monologue is Holding You Back – And 9 Ways To Fix It
How to lose Negative Nancy for once and for all

Career & Finance

How to Change Your Life: When You Know Things Have to Change but Have No Idea How to Do It
Advice from other Kiwi women who have been there

Doing Some Serious Career Thinking? A Kiwi Company Has Come to the Rescue, With a Free Digital Skills Course for All NZers
An easy (and free) way to up skill

Changing Up Your Career Path? An Expert’s Top 5 Tips for Making the Switch Successfully
Find out what you really want and then how to get it

Career at a Standstill? How to Figure Out Your Next Step and Get Your Dream Job
Now, form a plan!

How to Nail That Job Interview: Either IRL or Over Zoom

Financial Freedom at Any Age: Your Ultimate Guide for Sorting Your Money Matters. THE TWENTIES EDITION
Real talk from a financial expert, no jargon allowed.

Financial Freedom at Any Age: Your Ultimate Guide for Sorting Your Money Matters. THE THIRTIES EDITION

Financial Freedom at Any Age: Your Ultimate Guide for Sorting Your Money Matters. THE FORTIES AND FIFTIES EDITION

Health and Wellbeing

Need to Get Your Eating Back on a Healthy Track? A Nutritionist’s Top Tips and Quick Fixes
Easy ways to balance out your summer chips ‘n’ dip with some healthier options

For Your Listening Pleasure… Podcasts for Inspired Living and Sage Advice
Get your headphones, find a quiet spot on the beach and get listening

Curing it With Crystals: Healing Your Life, One Rose Quartz At A Time…
Is this the year you get into crystals????

Nourishing You… Looking After Your Emotional and Mental Health with Caralee Fontenele
Bestselling cookbook author, Caralee Fontenele, shares her advice on how to look after your brain health and emotional health through both food and also easy lifestyle changes.

Is this a good time for you to give up social media (or at least take a little break?) Emma says yes here, Alice says yes here and then Emma says yes here, again, for good measure.

Getting WILD at the QT Auckland: Champagne Problems & Fried Chicken in Bed – Finally Getting to Live Out the Rock Star Fantasy on...

Kelly Bertrand and her fiancé have a wild night at the QT Auckland and live out some true rock star fantasies (and if you're...

“It’s What I’ve Always Dreamed Of” – Football Fern Hannah Wilkinson on Progress, Equality & the ‘Bittersweet’ Comedown of the World Cup

She's New Zealand football's golden girl, with her generation-inspiring goal in the opening World Cup match against Norway sending the nation into raptures. But...

Resume Values Vs Eulogy Values: Where Does Your Self-Worth Come From, If It Doesn’t Come From Your Job?

Approaching the midlife point, it can start to be a big question: what does it mean to live a life your proud of? A...

The Motherhood Diaries: ‘I Went to My IVF Embryo Transfer… Then Drove My Friend to Get An Abortion’

On the same day that Capsule reader Belle had an IVF embryo transfer appointment, she volunteered to be the one taking a friend to...