I have often spoken about my issues with IBS and my subsequent appreciation for probiotics, as a means of keeping my symptoms at bay. In the quest for optimum health, I found the probiotic brand Probio7 – a great product range of quality probiotics.  Recently, the brand has launched Intiflor, which I was lucky enough to have been sent by the Probio7 team. Intiflor not only supports gut health, but is specifically tailored to promote intimate female health, ie. urinary tract infections, which are so common for many women (and not spoken about enough, in my opinion).

Since I posted about my experience at kaliyoga last year, I've had an influx of intrigued messages regarding what a 'yoga retreat' consists of...Do you have to go with someone else?Do you have to be a super fit, flexible and twice-weekly class yogi?Will I get hungry?Or will I have to sneak in food?

The Instagram algorithm.Those three little words rattle around the blogosphere constantly and confuse even the most seasoned user of the photo sharing platform. Since Instagram launched in 2010, it has changed its newsfeed from a chronological format (where each post displays in time order) in favour of its infamous algorithm, which claims to organise users feeds based on what it thinks will be of interest.The premise of the algorithm is actually a pretty good idea. A personalised newsfeed of all the photos you'll probably like most, based on what type of content you tend you engage with, which profiles you spend the longest looking at and commenting on and what's popular with other users. 

Instagram started out with a relatively simple premise.A picture tells a thousand words, so why not have a social media site that communicates with photographs?In the humble beginnings of the platform, people would post grainy pictures of their breakfast (I partly blame the rubbish iPhone cameras at that point), nights out and maybe a new outfit they'd recently bought.Well, I am speaking from experience.But today, Instagram is a very different landscape.

Now I won't lie to you here and profess I'm the queen of productivity, because this is most definitely not the case.I procrastinate far too much and seem to have made a habit out of causing myself more stress by not using free hours to catch up on work and be productive. Instead I use them to watch YouTube videos and get lost in the minefield of Twitter.But hey, we all do it.

There seems to be a growing epidemic of needing to be positive 100% of the time.My Instagram (I like to think) is a place of positivity, happiness, kindness and love.I try to keep it as a relatively bright and engaging space where I can inspire others to feel positive.A highlights reel of happiness as it were.But that doesn't mean that I'm ok 100% of the time.

So let me set the context for this post.A couple of years ago, I decided to undertake my own little social experiment.And nope, don't worry - I wasn't going to be parading around Piccadilly Circus in my underwear or anything like that.Though props to the girls who do have the confidence to do that!Instead, I decided to stop reaching out to friends and see which of them reached out to me.

Often you take your home city for granted a little.Sure it has its cool bits, but it's just the regular, the norm and the un-exciting.Right?Well last year, I made a little pact with myself to really get to know London.Both as a 'local' and a tourist.I wanted to REALLY be able to recommend the good bits whenever one of you guys asked me on YouTube or Instagram.

Love Island.Whether you're watching it or you're not.Whether you love to hate it or you're counting down the hours until it airs, gathering up your snacks like a hamster at 8.45pm so that you're prepped and ready for the roller-coaster of an hour ahead.You can't deny it's got the nation talking.And whether it's for the right or wrong reasons, there's certainly several things it's taught us all over the past four weeks.So let's chat...

It's June.Love Island is about to start.And the UK has had a fair few sunshine soaked days already.So we all know what that means.Summer is officially upon us.And the new season brings with it a whole host of exciting new things.