Author: Life Lovers Magazine
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Making sustainability my career
Bee the change My sustainability story began when my first grandson was born. Before then, I had heard of climate change, of course, but didn’t really connect it with my own life. I was busy with my kids. I had a fast-paced job as a children’s social worker and then managing a care home –…
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Austria… A place for everyone
When people think of Europe, people most likely think Spain, Portugal, France, Italy… but what about Austria? Not many people think of putting Austria onto their maps. Admittedly, I didn’t until 2021, but it truly is a gem hidden in plain sight. Austria is one of those places where you’ll go not expecting much but…
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The 7 Kinds of Rest You Didn’t Know You Need
It’s no surprise that after two years of pandemic living, “tired” doesn’t adequately describe the level of burnout many of us are feeling. Even with eight hours of sleep, it’s common to find yourself waking up even more tired than when you went to bed. But, there’s much more to rest than simply a good…
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Tawang: A Secret That Must Be Told
Tawang is not likely to feature on every traveller’s destination list, with North-East India largely unexplored by tourists. I was in my last year of college when a friend asked me to join him for a trip to Arunachal Pradesh. There, I could visit the biggest monastery in the country and benefit my dissertation, hence…
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How travel led me to quit drinking
I’d never viewed myself as someone who had a drinking problem, rather as a “regular” drinker who could take it or leave it. Alcohol went hand in hand with celebration, commiseration, sad times, happy times and everything in between. Most of all, though, alcohol was a trusty travel companion, and no journey or holiday would…
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Carefully Keto
Exploring the keto diet Covid hit us hard. For me, it was near the end of our first lockdown when I felt some changes needed to be made. I hadn’t exercised much and had, honestly, gained so much weight from sitting around waiting for the world to heal itself. Then one day, my aunt told…
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Spencer: Not a Princess but a Woman
The 2022 Oscars are right around the corner, and anyone who is excited about it has heard of Spencer. A cinematically-beautiful film centered around a royal Christmas holiday, this movie gives an intimate look into Princess Diana’s troubles and despair of the time. By Allyson Cochran
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Moving On
Lessons Learned from working in removals It’s not just the job that we do that matters to those around us; sometimes it’s how we do it and even who we are. Moving can be one of the most stressful experiences that a person goes through in life, moving overseas adding an additional level of complexity.…
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Discover Vegan Athens
Athens. Home of the ancient civilisation that gave us democracy, western philosophy, and a pantheon of Gods that we tell stories about to this day. And more recently, kick-ass vegan food. There are dozens of reasons to make Athens your next city trip destination, and when you do you’re going to need to know how…
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Acceptance
Learn to live an “it’s it what it is” kind of life. Life gets better when you start accepting it for what it is. No, it’s not a call to raise a white flag, but sometimes, you’ve got to take things for what they are and keep moving forward. There may be so many outcomes…
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Travel through the little things
Travelling can be enjoyed even more when you stop, breathe, and take in the small things. From small hikes to rural getaways across Southern California, I’ve discovered that the little things can sometimes prove to be the most impactful and important parts of a journey into a new chapter.
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10 Places to Love: BAKU
Baku, the so-called “City of Winds” and capital of the Land of Fire, Azerbaijan, has always attracted attention with its beauty, colourfulness and liveliness. It is a city where the nights are like a fairy tale worth writing songs and poems about. Every inch of it is worth seeing, but I will try to show…
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As I step into my allotment garden
How gardening let us travel As I step into my allotment garden, I am confronted with a sweet bird song. My raised beds are bursting at their seams with homegrown vegetables, and the air is buzzing with happy and grateful bees. I get to work, cutting lilac sweet peas and pulling up weeds that have…
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10 Simple and Practical Tips to learn how to reduce your Carbon Footprint
What is Carbon Footprint? And How we can reduce it to help protect the environment. In simple language, the carbon footprint is the total amount of greenhouse gases we generate through our lifestyle and daily activities. Greenhouse gases are gases such as carbon dioxide that trap heat in the atmosphere contribute to climate change. It…
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Exercise for Self awareness
Here is a short sequence to help you gain greater self awareness, release tension, improve mental health and overall wellbeing. A meditative breathing exercise to come into the present and close off the mind. Learning to control and work with the breath feeling into the body, understanding how it feels, what tension you’re holding and…
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Vote abroad
Exercising my right to be part of the elections back home In 2017, while I was in Australia, the right to vote abroad became a possibility for the 900.000 Chileans living overseas. Of those, around 57,5% have spent 20 years or more in the place where they currently are. However, their interest in Chilean politics…
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Starting your creative journey
It can seem overwhelming trying to find time for creative pursuits in our busy world, even more so when trying to kickstart your creative career. Though we are a society that invests a great deal of time into the consumption of art—movies, TV, novels, storytelling and so on—it is still difficult for many would-be creatives…
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Harry Potter: Return to Hogwarts
In case you might have missed it. This month not only started with giving you 365 new chances to have a beautiful day. But also bringing back our favourite wizarding world to celebrate 20 years since the release of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. So keep reading to find out what it is and…
