The pleasant temperatures of February and March fade fast, and by mid-April, the heat is genuinely noticeable. It is not yet the brutal summer that comes in June, but the signs are already there: the sun is sharper, you are sweating more than you did a month ago, and the constant swing between outdoor heat and indoor AC has started again. For your skin, this transition is one of the more demanding periods of the year. Your pores are working harder. Seb...

There is a nagging feeling sitting right in the centre of your chest. You slept last night, technically, but the alarms pulled you out twice, and your mind was already running before your feet hit the floor. At work, you kept re-reading the same email. On the drive home, you barely remembered the commute. That is stress that has been sitting in your body for weeks and slowly turning into a feeling you cannot quite name. It will not go away on its own. But there are ways to reduce w...

A lack of events, social evenings, and office lunches that used to break up the week has slowed down.  For the past months, most of Dubai has been operating from home, and while this sounds like proper rest, it isn’t. Working from home without a dedicated setup means a laptop on the couch, on the dining table or on the bed, and your neck is bent at the wrong angles all the time. You’ve been moving less and sitting mor...

New Year, New You?  There are generally two kinds of people when January rolls around: those who have a meticulously curated list of goals and habits they swear to abide by on January 1st, and those who choose to pass into the new year quietly, without undertaking any specific new resolutions. Regardless of which type you belong to, you have to admit that whether you plan for it o...