A flower growing through a crack. The giggle of a child. These small, positive micro-moments have the power to improve our overall wellbeing. These are glimmers. International expert Deb Dana talks about how women can use these glimmers to help navigate a world filled with expectations and triggers.

Do you ever feel e you’re running out of time? I mean it in the everyday ‘small-things-keep-cropping-up-and-eating-away-at-my-time’ way. Inspiration can be found in the words of women.

Here comes the final outcome of a four-week experiment aimed to answer the questions: Would I feel different if I felt better about myself?

Here comes week three’s outcome of a four-week experiment aimed to answer the questions: Would I feel different if I felt better about myself? Would others look at me and treat me differently?

Here comes week two’s outcome of a four-week experiment aimed to answer the questions: Would I feel different if I felt better about myself? Would others look at me and treat me differently?

Here comes the first week’s outcome of a four-week experiment aimed to answer the questions: Would I feel different if I felt better about myself? Would others look at me and treat me differently?

Would I feel different if I felt better about myself? Would others look at me and treat me differently? I’m going to try to answer these questions by embarking on a one-month mini-experiment. For one month I will make an effort to look more “groomed” and I will report back every week for four weeks.

There is something about the new year approaching that wipes out reality. We are mentally projected into the the new year and thoughts from that imagined future infiltrate our minds: both good and bad.

Expectations, I’ve concluded, are like ‘brain weeds’: they implant themselves in our minds and take over the way we approach - and eventually experience - something.

This week I’m choosing to be kind to myself. I’m choosing to ease off the pressure. I’m choosing to allow myself to sit down when I feel tired and slow down when I feel overwhelmed.