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Laura Belgray (https://talkingshrimp.com/) has written promos, launch campaigns, upfronts, online content, book chapters, full show episodes and more for: VH1, Nick at Nite, Nickelodeon, TV Land, The N, Bravo, Sundance Channel, Ion, WE, Lifetime, Oxygen, HBO, TBS, the CW and USA. This is her...

I'm here to jump on the Enid Blyton train—one of my absolute favourites from her is The Faraway Tree series. I also loved the Inkheart trilogy by Cornelia Funke and the Oracle trilogy by Catherine Fisher (and probably most of their other works) as a young teenager.

No worries, everyone is different, and it's really important to know that it's not you. How are you doing nowadays? Have you tried going to a therapist as well? It didn't work for me, but maybe seeing one in person might help you. I can understand this. For the longest time I was afraid of...

First of all, this is definitely not true! Self-help books don't work for everyone, and it's not your problem at all. I struggle with depression and anxiety myself, and I've never used these motivational materials. The first time I went to see a therapist, I hated it. It just felt like she was...

I think that a huge setback to anyone's progression in anything (school, work, relationships) is negative self-talk. Once something bad happens, we often associate it with ourselves and think "it must have been because I did this or said that" or "I can't do this, other people are better, I...

I think one good idea is to find a habit you already have, something you do every single day before bed, and to use it as a trigger. Even just the act of brushing your teeth can work—I've found that if you begin by associating the end of a long-term, habitual action with the start of the action...

Hi all, I have a friend who suffers from pretty bad anxiety and she's found Monument Valley really therapeutic. She's also recently been looking for similar games (through Google Search mostly), but most of them are paid apps and she wants to be sure she'll use them before buying them. I'm just...

I've always felt that those courses don't help much because they're often focused on language rules and don't really immerse you in the language. What I found much more useful instead was listening to French songs, watching French TV shows and movies, and (if you have the opportunity)...

This self-awareness is the first step to battling that addiction, so good on you! I think it's fine to use your phone a lot, especially since you do your work on it. The bottom line is that it shouldn't be negatively affecting the other parts of your life (not just relationships with others, but...

I've always wanted to write a novel as well! I mean, I've never seriously thought about it—it's a lot of work, and I'm also busy with other things right now—but it's always kind of been there at the back of my mind. I recently heard about this initiative called 750 Words, which helps you start...

I think when it comes to social media there definitely is a danger of getting too sucked in, of trying to curate a perfect online persona. But there is a beauty in it as well, of connection and community—I do feel that without it I wouldn't have been able to reconnect with old friends or to find...

I've been using Peak, a brain-training app, and I think it's pretty fun. It keeps the brain busy and it feels good to see improvement :) If you want to try it, I think it's available on both Google Play and the App Store for free!

Wow, I really relate to this. One or two months back I went through a bit of a rough patch emotionally, and though I didn't consciously make an effort to, I ended up spending a lot of time thinking—about my feelings, why I feel the way I do, how I relate to others and vice versa. And...

There's an oft-repeated line about the difference between 'alone' and 'lonely'. The former simply indicates a state of being in which one is alone (and there's an added emphasis on one's personal choice to be so). The latter, however, refers to a state of feeling and not a fact of being. For me...