Author: Rebecca Hurtrel

Stress. It’s an icky word isn’t it? Just hearing the word makes your heart beats that little bit faster. Your temperature might increase slightly. Or maybe your mind starts to go into overdrive with to-do lists and worries. It really is a major issue in our society today. It affects a great number of us,…

You know the feeling: You’ve gone too far, said too much. The nasty words spill out. Maybe you don’t really mean them, but it’s too late. You’ve already said it, and the silence—or the screaming—is excruciating. The long-distance lovers quarrel: Often it starts over nothing but has the potential to end everything. It happened to…

So there I was: exhausted and bewildered on a hot and humid Saturday, trying to get through customs. I’d just arrived in Goa, India, following 14 hours of travel from London. My driver was waiting for me in the arrivals hall holding a small, sparkly red heart, ready to whisk me off to Arambol Beach…