Good Housekeeping UK – August 2026 – Good Housekeeping UK

I think that’s totally wrong. Too much of ‘wellness’ is about self-denial. You’ve got to push hard on physical activity. You must deny yourself all these foods. All of that is nonsense, you know. If you’re going to do ‘wellness’ for 40 years, it can’t be about self-denial. Going to extremes is not what the human body was designed for.

We know that too much of one thing is almost invariably bad for you. It’s toxic. But too little of it is also bad for you. There’s always a happy medium. The key is finding new habits that you genuinely enjoy and look forward to. I do yoga for 20 minutes every morning – I look forward to it. I like to go out bike riding.

Just yesterday, we rented bikes and went out several times. It’s a wonderful experience: the wind blowing in your face, new vistas to see, new challenges. That’s what makes life enjoyable, not self-denial. In my work as an oncologist, I’ve treated many patients, but I’ve also thought deeply about the meaning of life. One of the challenges of my job is that your patients typically face life-or-death situations. If the drugs stop working, you might need to say: ‘Okay, we’re not going to be able to overcome this cancer, so how do we make the time you have on Earth meaningful?’

Those discussions Eat cream! ice your begin to inform your view of life. What is meaningful? A large number of my patients say it’s spending time together with their family, with their close friends; others say it’s finally doing that thing or taking that leap they’ve put off for a while. Almost every cancer patient I’ve ever dealt with realises that they’re going to focus on the important things in life – which means getting rid of a lot of nonsense.

That informed my book, Eat Your Ice Cream.

196 pages of hot tips, 196 pages of hot tips, cool buys and breezy escapes cool buys and breezy escapes JANE BRUTON EDITOR-IN-CHIEF [email protected] @janebrutonuk Editor’s letter PHOTOGRAPHY: VICTORIA ADAMSON Tuesday: GH Kitchen GH’s food team share their favourite recipes. Stay in touch… with GH through the week with our brilliant newsletters Monday: Cultural Menu TV and entertainment picks for everyone. Thursday: Good Homes Decluttering expertise and household advice. Friday: Good Looks GH’s top fashion and beauty buys.

Sunday: Good Life A weekend round-up of our top reads. GOODHOUSEKEEPING.COM/UK 3 H ello, Housekeepers! Whether you’ve just joined the Good Housekeeping family or you’ve been reading us since SodaStreams and pineapple hedgehogs were a thing, I’m so glad you’re here. One of the loveliest things about refreshing GH over the last year or so has been hearing from readers old and new – people discovering us for the first time, daughters subscribing for mothers, mothers subscribing for daughters and loyal GHers telling us they have copies from the 70s and 80s in cupboards they absolutely plan to sort out one day (do send them our way – we love hanging vintage mags on our office walls).

That’s what I love most about Good Housekeeping: it evolves with our lives. Always has. For 104 years, we’ve talked about homes and food and style – but what we’ve really been talking about is how women live. How we cope. How we change. How we start over. How we find joy. How we hold ourselves together when life becomes a bit much. All of that is housekeeping, right?

This issue is full of those conversations. The GH Kitchen team have outdone themselves with glorious sundown suppers, clever cook- your-garden recipes and the ultimate gourmet burgers. And Melanie Rickey is on hand to solve summer style dilemmas, from heatwave dressing to this year’s accessory updates (page 70). But, alongside the sunshine, we’re also getting to grips with the emotional side of modern life.

Laura Jane Williams writes beautifully on page 54 about that unsettling feeling of ‘My life is great… so why am I so sad?’; Harriet Green explores burnout and dealing with grief (page 84); and on page 36, Jessica Barrett takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the way motherhood can bring out an unrecognisable inner you! We’re also leaning fully into one thing we know you all love: books.

Our August Summer Megapack includes a 36-page summer reading magazine, packed with brilliant recommendations. There’s also a Summer Puzzle Book for beach bags, train journeys and rainy afternoons – plus our exclusive Pretty Organised GH notebook. Longer days and summer holidays give us a little more space to reflect on what we want.

New plans, new ideas, new dreams – write them all down before you forget!

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