Happy Citta

12/11/2025

You’re not you when you’re hungry… Or so the advertising will have you believe. But science says otherwise!

A new review spanning seven decades has found fasting doesn’t dull your mental edge. It might even help it.

Do you have a distracting anxiety about feeling hungry? Or are you an advocate for fasting in favour of both the mind and the body?

Read more on this week’s Happy Citta blog 🌿
https://www.happycitta.com/wellness-blog/2816140_the-truth-about-fasting-and-focus
(Or link in bio: Wellness Blogs)

08/11/2025

Sunny days are wonderful, but those darker days can also be what you make of them!

07/11/2025

Please remember this when you feel intimidated by someone else's confidence 🙏

05/11/2025

I’ve recently returned from Okinawa — one of the world’s Blue Zones — and I've been reflecting on why people there live longer.
🌿 Meals are simple.
🌿 People move slowly, but often.
🌿 Purpose is woven into every day.

This week’s blog explores what qualifies a "Blue Zone" and how we might bring some of those habits closer to home.

Would you want to live in a Blue Zone?
Are you already building one around you? 💭

You can read a little about my experience and what the research tells us here: https://www.happycitta.com/wellness-blog/2800646_okinawa-what-can-we-learn-from-blue-zones
(✨ Or link in bio - "Wellness Blogs")

05/11/2025

I hope the bird is okay!

31/10/2025

There are two possible outcomes to bragging about your heavy workload: Assistance or Sympathy.

If you don't directly ask for help, most of the time the best you can hope for is sympathy and even then, often not very genuine sympathy.

Deep breaths, think solutions, seek them, vent to those you trust if needed.

Have a nice day ✨

29/10/2025

We often think the only way to change is to leave. To close one door and walk through another.

But sometimes, true magic lies in discovering a door you never knew existed… right where you are.

This week’s Happy Citta reflection explores how new challenges can reawaken old curiosity, and how sometimes, renewal comes from rediscovery rather than escape.

🪞✨ Read The Door Inside the Same Room at https://www.happycitta.com/wellness-blog/2786750_the-door-inside-the-same-room
(Or link in bio - Wellness Blogs)

29/10/2025

We're BACK!!

Now I'm sure you hadn't noticed my absence here, and I'll tell myself that's because I've been very professionally keeping on top of weekly subscriber emails and sharing the weekly blog article as usual... Not because you don't want my content here 😉
But I was indeed on a little holiday and I am REFRESHED!

Refreshed and ready to talk mental health and all of the complicated and difficult things you might want to share with an impartial ear. Ready to provide tools and techniques to help you through strange and difficult times. Ready to explore minds with you.

Are you signed up to a Happy Citta membership yet? It's absolutely free and you can find out more about some of the perks in the email linked here:
https://ktmarie9.wixsite.com/so/e6PemR1pq?languageTag=en
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22/10/2025

We all wear masks... At work, with family, friends (even sometimes with ourselves!). This reflective blog explores authenticity vs performance, psychology of the persona, and how to notice the masks we carry.

What masks have you added or let go of over time?

✨ You can give it a read here: https://www.happycitta.com/wellness-blog/2723248_the-masks-we-wear-authenticity-vs-performance
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15/10/2025

Have you subscribed to this little bit of free weekly joy yet?
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Time moves so quickly... Half way through the week AND half way through October already?! Maybe it's a great time of the day, the week and the month to take a little break.

15/10/2025

Doing nothing isn’t laziness.

Today's short blog article explored how rest, silence and stillness fuel creativity, resilience and wellbeing, with insights from nature, Stefan Sagmeister, and the Obamas!

✨ You can read the post here: https://www.happycitta.com/wellness-blog/2723198_when-doing-nothing-is-doing-something
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08/10/2025

This World Mental Health Day, I’m exploring how the tools we use in therapy can also transform our workplaces.

CBT isn’t just for therapy rooms... it has a place in boardrooms too!

If our thoughts shape our wellbeing, then collective thinking shapes our culture.
So, what workplace belief would you most like to reframe?

✨ Read the full Happy Citta blog: https://www.happycitta.com/wellness-blog/2723168_workplace-therapy-how-to-use-cbt-to-get-the-best-out-of-the-working-day
(Or link in bio 🙏)