Here I am, at the little cafe at the end of the pier staring back at the world through the filter of a gentle fog, here in the little town of Deal on the east coast of Kent. As I sit with a double espresso (decaffeinated) I took a moment of meditation; breathing in slowly through my nose and out through my mouth. All while … Continue reading In Praise of Bleakness
If you wake up in the morning and immediately check how many likes, followers, and comments you’ve had on your latest social media post, before you lean over and kiss the other person in your bed – then you need to ask yourself whether social media is your first love? If the little red dots and the superscript numbers cause your heart rate to rise … Continue reading Demetrification may save the next generation on Social Media
In 1973, Santiago Genovés decided to create a 100-day ‘peace experiment’ to find out what drives acts of violence. 42 years later, we live-stream it, having learned very little. Continue reading Psychology of Love Island from the Sex Raft
The Drama Triangle is one of the concepts/theories that I quite often look back at when friends, family, or clients are talking about problems in their relationships, or problems holding down a relationship – it comes up a lot when talking about bad break-ups, especially those where contact is still required because of shared children. Outside of Copse Magazine, I also work as a mentor … Continue reading The Drama Triangle: Build Better Relationships
Sometimes you find yourself scanning through the Amazon Prime watch list and stumble upon something like Searching for Sugarman with its strange orange cover shot and wonder – what the hell is that? If you’ve got time to view it, where you can indulge yourself in a story you never knew you were interested in, then I would recommend you get that cup of tea … Continue reading Searching for Sugarman: Documentary Film Review
There’s a new movement in town and it’s getting hairier by the day. Januhairy is a new campaign by student Laura, and is taking the internet by storm. Laura says that she grew out her body hair for a performance as part of her drama degree course, all the way back in May 2018. She said that she had found some of the process quite … Continue reading Januhairy sees women growing their bodyhair out
