by Bettina | Oct 4, 2026 | Self-care tips
For most of my twenties I was, by every external measure, doing great — and quietly exhausted in a way I couldn’t explain. It took me an embarrassingly long time to name why: I was performing. Performing being fun at parties I wanted to leave, performing being...
by Bettina | Oct 1, 2026 | Hair care
I happily switch my skincare the moment the air turns crisp — heavier moisturiser, richer everything — but for years it never occurred to me to do the same for my hair. Then one October I couldn’t work out why my hair was simultaneously full of...
by Bettina | Sep 29, 2026 | Self-care tips
My anxiety has always saved its worst for the evening. All day I’m too busy to feel it, and then the house goes quiet, the lights go low, and suddenly my mind decides it’s the perfect time to replay every awkward thing I’ve ever said and forecast...
by Bettina | Sep 26, 2026 | Astrology
A few years ago a friend read my chart and said something that annoyed me for about a week: “Your worst quality is just your best one with the volume stuck on eleven.” I wanted to argue. Then I spent that week noticing how often my supposedly good trait —...
by Bettina | Sep 24, 2026 | Self-care tips
I used to think relationships succeeded or failed on the big stuff — shared values, chemistry, whether you wanted the same life. Then I watched two couples I know closely go in opposite directions, and it wasn’t the big stuff that separated them. It was the...
