The Journal

Relations make more of an impact on our health and happiness than our genes, social class and IQ. Read along to know why, and get founder Mette Skjærbæk's take on how to boost your relations with 12 dates.

DO YOU is a focus year-round, every day, and ideally every hour. Something which is so giving to practice. For me, it always starts with: What do I actually want to do? In the midst of everybody else's needs, and all the different things one could be doing?

So there I was, aged 19, on my way down to Lower East Side in Manhattan, down to The Russian Baths to escape the hustle and bustle...

Always on the quest for optimised and natural skin health, I endeavored into a challenge with myself: I have to give face yoga a 30-day chance. I need to know if it works.

DO YOU - Always. In a time where we are overloaded with messages about what we ought to do, I believe in one thing only: DO YOU. Being some 7.8 billion people in the world, there must be some 7.8 billion ways to do what’s right.

I practice DO YOU. I am not a pillar of manifestation of DO YOU. I practice. As a mother, businesswoman, family person, devoted friend and girlfriend etc. I periodically find it hard to even feel what my desires actually are. So, I practice.

I have always been fascinated by the important role of water for human beings. Water, oxygen and light are the primary sources of life, and with a very high component of water in the human body, water is an important element for our well-being.

When it comes to the body, I am constantly impressed by how much it’s capable of coping. It is amazing what the mechanisms inside our body can handle, if we just give it a bit of tender loving care.

Sometimes it’s the small discoveries that make the biggest changes to our lives, and that’s how it was for me with water. I can clearly remember the day...

A few years ago, I realised that I wasn’t getting the six pieces of fruit and veg recommended by the Danish Health Authority into my children every day.

I’m not keen on rules that dictate what you “must” and “mustn’t” do, but I like the idea of making a pact with ourselves.

I know! It’s not a nice way of putting it! Calling the skin “leather”, or comparing our delicate skin to a boot, but I love metaphors.