🦄 Elle Canada – December 2023/January/February 2024

Elle contains helpful articles on trends and tips for women’s fashion, beauty and shopping.

🍀 🔋 The Anatomy of Anxiety: Understanding and Overcoming the Body's Fear Response

From acclaimed psychiatrist Dr. Ellen Vora comes a groundbreaking understanding of how anxiety manifests in the body and mind—and what we can do to overcome it.

Anxiety affects more than forty million Americans—a number that continues to climb in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. While conventional medicine tends to view anxiety as a "neck-up" problem—that is, one of brain chemistry and psychology—the truth is that the origins of anxiety are rooted in the body.

In The Anatomy of Anxiety, holistic psychiatrist Dr. Ellen Vora offers nothing less than a paradigm shift in our understanding of anxiety and mental health, suggesting that anxiety is not simply a brain disorder but a whole-body condition. In her clinical work, Dr. Vora has found time and again that the symptoms of anxiety can often be traced to imbalances in the body. The emotional and physical discomfort we experience—sleeplessness, brain fog, stomach pain, jitters—is a result of the body's stress response. This physiological state can be triggered by challenging experiences as well as seemingly innocuous factors, such as diet and use of technology.

The good news is that this body-based anxiety, or, as Dr. Vora terms it, "false anxiety," is easily treated. Once the body's needs are addressed, Dr. Vora reframes any remaining symptoms not as a disorder but rather as an urgent plea from within. This "true anxiety" is a signal that something else is out of balance—in our lives, in our relationships, in the world. True anxiety serves as our inner compass, helping us recalibrate when we're feeling lost.

🆕 The New Yorker – November 27, 2023

Overview: The New Yorker, American weekly magazine, famous for its varied literary fare and humour.

🌎 🟡 National Geographic – December 2023

Overview: latest news in science, exploration, and culture will open your eyes to the world’s many wonders.

Get National Geographic Interactive digital magazine today and experience the same high-quality articles and breathtaking photography contained in the print edition, along with interactive capabilities such as audio, and videos, enhanced navigation and faster browsing.

👠 British Vogue – December 2023

Overview: Fashion news, backstage photos, fashion trends, catwalk videos, supermodel interviews, beauty trends and celebrity party photos, brought to you by British Vogue.

🍫 🍫 The True History of Chocolate by Michael D. Coe

“A beautifully written . . . and illustrated history of the Food of the Gods, from the Olmecs to present-day developments.”―Chocolatier

This delightful tale of one of the world’s favorite foods draws on botany, archaeology, and culinary history to present a complete and accurate history of chocolate.

🎏 The Simple Things – December 2023

Overview: The Simple Things is a beautiful, useful, quirky and fun magazine about taking time to live well.

We cover mindfulness and microadventures, eating and growing, forgotten wisdom, home life and slow moments. It’s for people who love their lives but want to take the pressure off and remember what’s really important. We like tea & cake, learning stuff, being outside and the satisfaction of a job well done. Do you?