Like pretty much everyone around the globe, I’ve had a few experiences with cancer. My high school biology teacher was diagnosed with lymphatic cancer. My great aunt, an avid smoker until the day she died,…
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Surviving your first week at a new job
I started working at Lumico in Stellenbosch a mere five months ago, and I didn’t give much thought to how I should and should not behave. Luckily, one of my friends from university works at…
Confession time: Bills and Budgets freak me out
Not much of a confession, is it, since I feel like most 20 – somethings tend to fail at keeping their bank balances in the positive. Right? Here’s the thing though, my boyfriend and I…
Learning to re-love my baby body
Pregnancy was a difficult journey for me. Not physically, I had the usual fatigue during my first trimester and sleepless nights at the end, but there was no serious nausea, no intense bodily qualms, and…
WTF are Nutraceuticals?
Weird things are popping up in health and wellness products all the time. For example, human growth factors, hemp and CBD extracts in skincare products, medicinal mushrooms, and now nutraceuticals. The word “nutraceutical” is derived…
Everything you wish you knew about job interviews
I think we all can agree – interviews are terrifying! From sending out your CV to dressing correctly, to arriving on time and sounding knowledgeable; it is all very intimidating. The very nature of interviews…
I used to be a perfect parent, then I had a baby…
A few weeks ago I was squatting next to a hospital bed, trying to breathe my way through contractions, which are more or less like your worst period pains, if period pains grew razor sharp…