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#happyYOUyear: 5 podcasts to help you love yourself in 2020
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#happyYOUyear: 'I'm challenging myself to self-love instead of New Year's resolutions this year'
Digital Features Editor Jenny Proudfoot goes from 64 New Year's resolutions in 2019 to zero in 2020...
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Sea Buckthorn anyone? Welcome to 2020's top wellness & lifestyle trends
From designer gaming and sipping dirty pickle martini to ‘normcore wellness’ and visiting virtual spas, a top futurist predicts how our 2020 is shaping up
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These secret codes let you access all the Netflix Christmas movies and TV shows in one place
In need of a festive fix?
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Why do 'casual' relationships get so messy when you try to talk about what 'casual' means?
Instagram's cult illustrator Shelby Lorman and author of Awards For Good Boys reckons the no-labels dating scene has its pros, but warns don’t confuse ‘relationship status: unknown’ with stress-free sex...
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'I'm dreading facing Christmas for the first time without Mum': Alex Mytton shares his grief and new-year goals
Made In Chelsea star Alex Mytton tragically lost his mum to brain cancer earlier this year. Here, in an exclusive interview, he reveals how he plans to spend his first Christmas without her - and why he couldn't have coped without the support of friends, family and therapy
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This is what it feels like to battle an eating disorder at Christmas
Christmas is often fuelled by tins of Quality Street and endless rounds of roast potatoes. But it's not the season to eat, drink and be merry for everyone. Here, writer Hattie Gladwell, who fought bulimia for three years, reveals what Christmas looks like when you have an eating disorder
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The Dirty Girls of Lesvos champion laundry not landfill - and they're transforming the lives of refugees
Sea-soaked and shaking with fear, waves of refugees arrive daily on Lesvos's shores. Now, a pioneering initiative is helping to literally wash away the indignity of destitution through the power of laundry. To mark International Migrants Day, we meet Dirty Girls founder, Alison Terry, to share their story
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This writer killed her toxic wine habit with kindness. Here’s how…
When using alcohol as an emotional crutch began to take its toll, Marisa Bate sought help from behavioural change specialist Shahroo Izadi - and turned her life around
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Robyn Wilder: ‘An undiagnosed condition made me feel bad, stupid and lazy’
Up to three-quarters of women with ADHD will go through life without receiving a diagnosis, many tormented by anxiety or depression. Robyn Wilder spent 41 years knowing exactly how this feels...
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What you learn about life when you delete your dating apps
Has the trend for swiping right finally taken its toll on our mental health? After years of digital-dating disasters, Olivia Foster decided to delete her dating apps for good and go analogue. The result? More time and energy; less 'ladmin'…
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The general election results are in - so what happens now?
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The Frugality on how to be smart with your cash this Christmas
Fashion stylist Alex Stedman (aka The Frugality) has plenty of ideas on how to avoid spending all your money this festive season
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The ethical brands I’ll be shopping this Christmas
Wondering where you can buy the best sustainable gifts for Christmas? Fashion Editor at Large Jess Wood rounds up her favourite brands
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'If you're a female MP, people intimidate you in the hope you will shut up and go away’
With the general election - arguably our most toxic one ever - only hours away, Marisa Bate investigates the grim reality of female MPs facing daily death and rape threats, installing panic buttons at home and asks three candidates running for re-election how do we keep women in politics
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Am I selfish not wanting to spend Christmas with my husband's family?
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'Why we need to stop believing freedom of speech is a dangerous thing'
Writer, producer and director Deborah Coughlin reflects on why blocking people with opposing views to your own and essentially living in an echo chamber is not going to solve the world's problems
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The woman who was slut shamed for surviving abduction
Every year, hundreds of girls in Pakistan go missing without a trace. Law student, Dua Nisar Mangi is one of the few who came back. So why is she being slut shamed for it?
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What Marie Claire learned from campaigning against the homelessness crisis in London last night
We joined over 2,500 people braving the winter conditions to raise awareness and funds for housing and homelessness charity Shelter
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Join us and help the hidden homeless this winter
Every four minutes someone in the UK becomes homeless - and 60% are women. That’s why this week Marie Claire is joining Shelter’s Christmas campaign to help
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Slaves for sale on phone apps: ‘I was offered a child as a domestic maid’
Selling people via an app is the shocking face of the modern-day slave trade, as Jess Kelly, director of the BBC’s Silicon Valley’s Online Slave Market discovered. Jess tells how her team broke all the usual rules of film-making when they discovered a petrified girl working as a ‘maid slave’, and ask what’s being done to control these apps
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Protesting for change: a Hong Kong student activist on fear versus freedom
Defending democratic rights against Chinese intervention is a priority for 20-year-old Hong Kong university student Jason* - and he will not apologise for any damage or disruption caused
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I pressurised my husband into having a third child – don’t do the same
Determined to get what she wanted, Fiona Drake reveals how forcing her husband into having another child nearly cost her everything
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Could these apps re-set your sex drive?
We live in one of the most sexually liberated times in history. Yet the stats show we're having less sex than ever before. Keen to reset their own lowered libidos, one writer and her partner agree to put tech to the test - and see if there really is an app for that
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Rape survivors share their stories and here’s what we can learn from them
Hello, my name is Lizzy Dening and I help survivors of sexual violence tell their unflinching honest accounts online, often when they’ve not told anyone before. Here’s why it’s crucial we learn to listen
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Author Charlotte Philby on how to write a novel when you’re stuck inside all day
I have a life that’s messy and manic – hello three small kids and a Netflix addiction – so let me tell you how I did it and got published too. Can you do it? Yes you can!
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Porn is seriously affecting your sex life - whether you watch it or not
From issues reaching orgasm to an obsession with fantasies, Marie Claire investigates porn’s devastating effect on our sex lives
