Hattie Garlick

2 weeks ago | goodhousekeeping.com | Hattie Garlick

‘We live in a world of novelty, of chasing shiny new toys,’ says Robin Sharma, the Canadian leadership and personal growth guru who’s advised everyone from Jon Bon Jovi to NASA while selling more than 25m books. ‘We start the novel we always wanted to write, but we stop before we get any consistency and traction, and we start becoming an influencer.

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Hattie Garlick

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3 weeks ago | goodhousekeeping.com | Hattie Garlick

Ever find yourself in the bath, soaping or shaving a leg and then stopping – suddenly – at the sight of a vein that definitely wasn’t there before. Or was it? Has it got darker? Or bigger? And should you worry about it? Studies suggest that varicose veins occur in as many as 20% of men and 33% of women. In fact, venous disease (that’s any condition that affects the veins in your body) increases with age, so that an estimated 80% of women have some form by age 80.

3 weeks ago | goodhousekeeping.com | Hattie Garlick

‘My father would have so hated it if I’d tried to have a conversation like that with him – a fully open and intimate one,’ says Reverend Richard Coles. ‘He’d have retreated to his study and put on Mahler. I knew he loved me, and he knew I loved him, but we didn’t really say it to each other until he got to the end of his life.

3 weeks ago | goodhousekeeping.com | Hattie Garlick

The birth of your first grandchild is a moment many women dream about. ‘And, mostly, we hear it described in universally glowing terms,’ says Dr Terri Apter, psychologist and author of new book Grandparenting: On Love And Relationships Across Generations. ‘We hear about the immediate, unconditional love that they have for their grandchild and how the new baby brings women closer to their adult daughters. And that’s wonderful.