Health
Health is wealth. It’s the foundation on which everything else sits. At Cleopatras we take an East meets West approach to health, believing in the connection between the mental and the physical health. We won’t tolerate anything connected to fat-shaming or promoting an ideal outside of what ideal looks like to you and your lifestyle.


The Youtube Rabbit Hole That Helped Me Get over the Stress of Being Stressed!
Stress and anxiety are some of the biggest challenges facing people in the world today. Only exagerrated by the Coronavirus Pandemic, here is how I found my way through one particular evening.

What Is Reiki? An Introduction to a Powerful Healing Technique
Reiki is an ancient healing technique which uses energy to address issues caused by physical or emotional imbalances. Level 3 Reiki master, Faith Ellis (@faithholistics) explains what it is, where it came from and how it might help you. While some may be sceptical of non-invasive therapies, it’s rising popularity is due to many people observing its power for themselves.

Sustainable Activewear for Your Life After Lockdown
While the coronavirus crisis offers governments the chance to make climate-smart choices and policies on a national and international scale, it has also given us

The Suppliers Helping You Achieve Farm to Table Shopping
We don’t generally need much convincing that fresher food is a good thing. Better for the planet, better for our bodies, and better flavoured! But when it’s so easy to pop to the supermarket, it’s the convenience aspect that needs solving. Here are some ways you can start to source fresher produce.

Learning About Philosophy Will Change Your Life
Two years ago I was doing some article browsing online and stumbled upon something written by the writer Ryan Holiday. I liked the way he

Limitless: Power and Freedom in Running
The desire to run is a topic which has sparked interest in people for many years. It’s an activity in that no-one will ask you
Some Tips to Help You Handle Loneliness
Whoever you are and whatever your lifestyle, I bet that at some point you’ve experienced loneliness. If you haven’t, it’s likely you will in the future. Loneliness is something I’ve witnessed affecting the lives of people I care about as well as something I’ve felt myself, and recent studies indicate that it’s on the rise. It’s not embarrassing to feel lonely at times. It’s normal. Totally normal. A study conducted by the BBC last year, found 40% of 16-24 year olds felt lonely ‘often’ or ‘very often’, with categories from every age group coming in at over 30%. Loneliness is an unpleasant feeling, and one that can be hard to articulate or get to the core of. You can be loved by many people, be surrounded by many people, or be perfectly used to your own company and still get

Do You Really Need An App To Manage Your Phone Addiction?
In the App Store under Health and Fitness, there is an app you can download called Moment, which offers to help you break your device

The Great Privilege Of Having A Vagina
There are many aspects of myself which I have worked on. I’ve worked on my patience, my work ethic, my ability to forgive. I’ve gone

How Great Leaders And Athletes Have Used Their Sex Drives
Muhammad Ali didn’t have sex much. He lost his virginity to a prostitute aged 16 and he was married four times. But outside of these

The Importance Of Allowing Yourself To Breakdown
Life is a rollercoaster of highs and lows. Sometimes we feel amazing. Sometimes we feel lost and sad. Buddha famously said, ‘life is suffering’, something
Some Ways To Meditate If Meditation Doesn’t Work For You
Meditation has to be one of the most polarising, yet intriguing habits of successful people. There are celebrity fans including Gwyneth Paltrow and Jennifer Aniston, lauding the role it’s played in their lives, and business magnates crediting large portions of their success to this daily mind work. As the rest of us seek to understand how to get that success and be more productive, the consistency of this push to meditation is hard to ignore. “I’ve been starting companies, rehabilitating brands and promoting artists for over 30 years now and I can promise you that no tool has made me a smarter, more focused and clearer thinking entrepreneur than meditation. I would not be living in my incredible home, surrounded by fun toys, if it were not for meditation.” – Russell Simmons An interest in meditation, is of course not

Was It Hard Going Vegan?
Nope. I went vegan, or “plant based” (the term I prefer) over a year ago now. Before that switch I’d been pescatarian for a couple

Female Self-Love Is Finally Getting The Attention It Deserves
Female masturbation has been a confusing topic for a while. Even writing that as an opening line feels like we’ve broken a taboo by not

How to be smarter according to Einstein, more inventive by Elon Musk, more athletic by Serena Williams and more beautiful by Christy Turlington.
As someone who hasn’t yet worked out how to be a billionaire inventor with an athlete’s body and the charm of a Princess, I think

Can we stop talking about balance and start talking about variety
There’s a rumour going around about how to live life to the fullest. The rumour is that to really maximise life and achieve peak happiness,

If You’re Struggling to Find Time to Workout, Consider this
“I gotta work out. I keep saying it all the time. I keep saying I gotta start working out. It’s been about two months since

So You Want to Be Beyonce? Well, You Can Be.
Looking to achieve as much in a day as Beyoncé does? You aren’t alone. One of the most famous and consistently inspirational women in entertainment, we take a look at what it might take to transform yourself into one of the greatest live performers of all time.

Success Lessons for Entrepreneurs from the Founder of Nike, Phil Knight.
At the moment the idea of following a traditional career path seems to be losing its appeal. Salaries haven’t grown beyond the rate of inflation,

Leadership Lessons: Amelia Boone
Amelia Boone is an athlete. Her sport is obstacle racing at which she is currently one of the most decorated competitors of all time. The

Ivy Park Celebrating the “New Icons” of fitness can only be a good thing!
In a moment of procrastination research into my professional wardrobe, I went onto the Topshop website and was greeted with the below: Ivy Park, which