Social Anxiety and COVID-19: How to Cope After Leaving Lockdown

I’m panting, head racing, heart beating out of control. Wondering if I will be sick, I click on the blue button on the screen and join my first Zoom class of the day. To the average person, this may sound like an overreaction. After all, what can be so scary about a row of boxes on a screen? But the multiple lockdowns over the past year have taken a toll on my mental health and social skills. According to the Mental Health Foundation, over half of UK adults think their future will be worse as a result of the pandemic, especially students and those with pre-existing mental health conditions. While the country is gearing up to be set free from COVID restrictions on the 21st of June, some are wondering whether they will be able to handle ordinary life ever again. After all, if I get anxious before a Zoom meeting, how will I cope in the middle of a crowd this summer? Continue reading Social Anxiety and COVID-19: How to Cope After Leaving Lockdown

RAZZ MagApril 13, 2021April 12, 2021Leave a comment

Columns, Food, Lifestyle

The Healthy Helena: Food and Mood

Whilst it’s well known that eating a healthy, balanced diet is beneficial for our physical health, people are often unaware of the impact our nutrition has on our mental health. With the current bleak and often stressful environment due to the COVID-19 pandemic, comfort foods are tempting ways to lift our spirits. However, sugary treats and processed foods can often have the reverse effects, and it is important to nourish and nurture your body with the right nutrition in order to feel your finest. Continue reading The Healthy Helena: Food and Mood

RAZZ MagMarch 3, 2021March 3, 2021Leave a comment

beauty, Lifestyle

Starting Invisalign: Everything you Need to Know About the Popular Treatment

Despite asking the dentist, some of us skipped the braces experience many go through at school. Ongoing lockdown seemed an ideal time to undertake an alternative process, so, after saving up furlough, I have taken the plunge and started a 15 week course of Invisalign. After finding online information conflicting and overwhelming, I decided to share my own experience to help others make an informed choice. Continue reading Starting Invisalign: Everything you Need to Know About the Popular Treatment

RAZZ MagFebruary 4, 2021February 2, 2021Leave a comment

Editorial Team, Lifestyle, Misc.

Podcasts for the Soul

With so much more time on our hands to walk, clear out our rooms, and lie in bed staring at the wall, here are some podcasts to soundtrack your lockdown life. Continue reading Podcasts for the Soul

RAZZ MagApril 29, 2020Leave a comment

Editorial Team, Exeter Uni, Lifestyle, Misc., What's Happening

Acknowledging Uncertainty: How Coronavirus has Changed the Way We Plan For the Future

Our lives are mapped around referential points. We all have calendars littered with birthdays, exams, parties, graduation ceremonies, interviews, visits to friends, events, plays, holidays, gigs. None of us live purely spontaneously. For decades modern life has functioned on the presumption that imposing order onto our immediate futures will make us more productive, prompt and predictable. Life is prearranged invisibly around us, marked by the constant promises of the near future, what’s coming next, what will I be doing tomorrow? Continue reading Acknowledging Uncertainty: How Coronavirus has Changed the Way We Plan For the Future

RAZZ MagApril 25, 2020Leave a comment

Editorial Team, Lifestyle, What's Happening

Adjusting To The New Normal: Home Life

It has been nearly four weeks since the beginning of lockdown conditions. Yet it is indisputably important to become hermits of our home at this time – not everyone is invincible to the invisibility of the virus. It’s a necessary collective effort and, really, few outcomes are worse when fighting a national health issue than staying indoors. It is restricting our daily lives, yes – but at the cost of extending the lives of those most vulnerable in our society. Continue reading Adjusting To The New Normal: Home Life

RAZZ MagApril 22, 2020April 20, 2020Leave a comment

Editorial Team, Lifestyle

Finding the Joy in the Mundane

With the outbreak of COVID-19, the world was forced into reactionary mode. Measures of varying degrees took place around the globe. The UK is now in lockdown, with no knowledge of when measures will be alleviated. As a result, an influx of articles and social media posts occurred, all in the name of ‘making the most’ of this period and being as productive as possible. Continue reading Finding the Joy in the Mundane

RAZZ MagApril 21, 2020April 20, 2020Leave a comment

Editorial Team, Lifestyle

Do I Have to Have a Productive Pandemic?

Humans are social beings, and even as an introvert, being trapped with the same three faces for an indefinite sentence is a little overwhelming. Just as the weather was heating up and you were planning on a pitcher at the Impy, your social life was suddenly cut short. Now you’re muffling through a scarf to say hi to passers-by and walking round them like you … Continue reading Do I Have to Have a Productive Pandemic?

RAZZ MagApril 17, 2020April 16, 2020Leave a comment

Columns, Editorial Team, Lifestyle, Misc.

My Culture Comforts: Nora Ephron Films

It’s no surprise that people have been using these past few weeks to productively catch up on (binge watch) all the TV shows and films they may not have previously had time for. However, especially with the future being so uncertain, it can also be nice to return to some past favourites. Over the past week, I have re-watched four of my top Nora Ephron films (When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle, You’ve Got Mail, Julie & Julia), each time remembering why I love her. A combination of Ephron’s phenomenal writing, upbeat soundtracks and of course a stellar cast (with Meg Ryan as a particular favourite), it’s hard not to find comfort in these classics. Continue reading My Culture Comforts: Nora Ephron Films

RAZZ MagApril 15, 2020Leave a comment

Lifestyle, Misc.

In the Pod: Recommended Podcasts

In the midst of the current lockdown situation, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the wealth of uncertainty; and without much social interaction, isolation can start to feel, well quite isolating. So, as they form a large element within my own quarantine routine, I thought I’d share with you some of my favourite podcasts to hopefully brighten up those isolation blues. Continue reading In the Pod: Recommended Podcasts

RAZZ MagApril 13, 2020Leave a comment

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