Many of us share sim­i­lar sen­ti­ments to­wards ac­ne break­outs and their frus­trat­ing na­ture. What makes them even worse is that they tend to leave un­want­ed scars on the face and oth­er vis­i­ble ar­eas of the body. For many of us who suf­fer from ac­ne, these scars are a con­stant re­minder of the painful and both­er­some ac­ne con­di­tion that of­ten­times af­fects our self-es­teem and con­fi­dence.

Abi­an­ka Alexan­der Dick, bet­ter known as Ab­by, was born and raised in Gold­en Lane, Mt Thomas, To­ba­go, to an awe­some and lov­ing ex­tend­ed fam­i­ly. Her moth­er left her when she was just two-years-old to pur­sue Nurs­ing in Trinidad. Ab­by al­ways want­ed to fol­low in her moth­er’s foot­steps to be­come a nurse but felt like she want­ed to be more than just that. Twen­ty-six years lat­er, she is now an Oc­cu­pa­tion­al Health Nurse, Su­per­vi­sor and wor­ship leader who is hap­pi­ly mar­ried.

Learn­ing to be con­tent and thank­ful for all the bless­ings in your re­la­tion­ship in­stead of harp­ing on the short­com­ings.

At the age of 37 cer­ti­fied in­te­ri­or de­sign­er Vani Ma­haraj has been able to ac­com­plish a lot pro­fes­sion­al­ly and per­son­al­ly and there is a lot more in store for her. With eight years’ ex­pe­ri­ence, re­sult­ing from hard work and most­ly from the be­lief that the sky’s the lim­it, she has been suc­cess­ful­ly man­ag­ing her pri­vate busi­ness, Di­vine Liv­ing, along with her team.

Do you ever ask your­self, can I ever get the physique that I’ve al­ways dreamed of? For many folks that is a mon­u­men­tal task that nev­er seems to be with­in their reach, re­gard­less of how hard they have tried. So the ques­tion is, “what are they do­ing wrong when it comes to their work­out rou­tine?”

Do you know what it is like to be con­stant­ly fear­ful of some­thing bad hap­pen­ing to you or some­one you care about; to feel like if a world of ill­ness is hap­pen­ing in­side of your body; or to be un­con­trol­lably ner­vous or ir­ri­ta­ble, with thoughts rac­ing so much that you just can­not get much sleep at night? Pro­longed anx­i­ety is no­body’s friend, and yet, it is the most com­mon men­tal health dis­or­der in many parts of the world, ri­valled on­ly by de­pres­sion. Al­though anx­ious­ness is a nor­mal emo­tion when fleet­ing, if it is ac­com­pa­nied by chron­ic stress, wor­ry and a gen­er­al de­cline in over­all health, the con­di­tion be­comes a men­tal health dis­or­der.

When I teach nu­tri­tion ed­u­ca­tion in schools, I al­ways start by ask­ing the stu­dents what foods they con­sid­er healthy. Chil­dren as young as in­fants can quick­ly rat­tle off a list of fruits and veg­eta­bles such as ba­nana, ap­ples, broc­coli, car­rots and cu­cum­ber. But when I speak with par­ents, I hear many talk about the strug­gles of get­ting their chil­dren to ac­tu­al­ly EAT these same fruits and veg­eta­bles. Here are a few tips to en­cour­age your chil­dren to eat a health­i­er di­et.

The prostate is a wal­nut-sized gland lo­cat­ed be­tween the blad­der and the pe­nis that serves a role in sex­u­al re­pro­duc­tion. A ma­lig­nan­cy or can­cer is a dis­ease where cells in the body grow out of con­trol. A ma­lig­nan­cy that de­vel­ops from the tis­sues of the prostate gland is known as prostate can­cer and is one of the most com­mon can­cers and cause of death among men world­wide. Fac­tors that put males at risk of de­vel­op­ing this can­cer are age (>55-69 years of age), ge­net­ics (a fam­i­ly his­to­ry of prostate can­cer) and race (African an­ces­try). What makes this can­cer a silent killer is that, many men with it may nev­er de­vel­op symp­toms un­til ad­vanced dis­ease has set in.

Imag­ine not be­ing able to write a cheque or to read your child a bed­time sto­ry. Imag­ine hav­ing to say that your glass­es are bro­ken so that you can ask some­one to fill in a form for you. As the world ac­knowl­edged Dyslex­ia Aware­ness Day yes­ter­day, we reached out to the Dyslex­ia As­so­ci­a­tion to help fur­ther raise aware­ness. Here’s what they shared with us:

Kristy Ram­nar­ine grew up in Tabaquite, a co­coa vil­lage lo­cat­ed in Cen­tral Trinidad, which in­stilled in her a love for the out­doors and na­ture. Dur­ing her school­ing her love for the Eng­lish Lan­guage en­cour­aged her to write. Her ob­vi­ous ca­reer path was jour­nal­ism.

Re­la­tion­ship eti­quette is a re­al thing. Find out why you or your part­ner may be en­cour­ag­ing in­se­cu­ri­ty and ar­gu­ments in your re­la­tion­ship.

Mary Mar­cano is a wid­ow and a moth­er of five who is con­sid­ered to be a very re­source­ful and strong woman, par­tic­u­lar­ly in the face of to­day’s chang­ing world. As a woman with hands of com­pas­sion, deep faith and mer­cy, Mary (ap­pro­pri­ate­ly named) has been able to bring some light amidst the dark­ness for many im­pov­er­ished fam­i­lies.