Wellness blog

It’s no secret that we are living more sedentary lives. We aren’t walking as much as we used to because we’re chained to a desk.  Working from home means the commute from bed to desk delivers us, thankfully, from gridlock, but even further into reduced activity. Even if your desk is outside the home, chances are your commute doesn’t involve a brisk 40 minute walk. We KNOW we need to move more. We can feel in our bones. Literally. Holding phones, looking down at screens in our hands, we are moving less and creaking more… We have impinged shoulders from...

  If Necessity Is the Mother of All Invention, then Shawna Scott, Owner of Sex Siopa is the mother of all things saucy in the bedroom…. Shauna moved to Ireland from Seattle and noticed a gap in the market. Sex shops were nowhere to be found in Dublin. At least not the kind Shawna liked. A shop where you could go in and feel comfortable and welcome. Not guarded by some dirty old fella in a raincoat.  So she created her own. An online shopping experience with something for everyone and every body. Let’s face it- sex should be a...

As many of you know, I am on a journey to find a way to lower my cholesterol. It’s been eye opening to say the least. I even have an airfryer! I know- I’m late to that one. I don’t have oat milk in my coffee anymore 🤭… I’m learning….. The goal is to reduce processed foods as well and oat milk is just too processed for my liking. AND full fat milk is not actually the baddie it is perceived to be (more on that later) I’m also learning all about the kinds of foods we can eat to...

When was the last time you had a look? 🕵️ Down there… No, not under the stairs, I mean your undercarriage- your vulva and vagina? When was the last time you looked? Never? You’re not alone. There’s so many of us who have never looked. And if you’ve never looked, chances are you don’t know what normal, as in normal for you, looks like. It’s important we get comfortable looking at our bodies and the more comfortable we are, the more likely we are to advocate clearly on our behalf. Knowing our bodies intimately means we can keep ourselves healthy...