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02-06-2025
- Entertainment
Oprah Daily's pick for top summer skin products
Oprah Daily Beauty Director Kate Sandoval Box highlights top picks from the outlet's Sun "O-Ward" winners featuring must-have products to keep your skin protected all summer long. June 2, 2025
Yahoo
14-05-2025
- Lifestyle
- Yahoo
Shoppers Say This Oprah-Approved Comforter Is 'Just the Right Weight'
Finding the perfect comforter can feel like a never-ending search. Oprah to the rescue! Oprah Daily gave PeachSkinSheets' new Oversized Comforter a top spot in Oprah Daily's 2025 Sleep O-Wards, with customers raving that it's 'just the right weight' for year-round comfort. The Atlanta-based bedding brand is already known for its ultra-soft sheets, but launched its comforter line last year, and it's quickly become a standout. Each comforter is made with the company's signature Smart Fabric, which is designed to regulate body temperature, keeping hot sleepers cool and cold sleepers warm. With this cozy comforter, you won't find yourself waking up in the middle of the night to throw off layers or put more on, so you're sure to get the best sleep ever. The comforter is available in a whopping 33 stylish colors, from French blue and sage green to red velvet and zesty lemon. With so many options, you're sure to find one that perfectly matches your bedroom decor. The oversized comforter is filled with hypoallergenic polyfiber fill that stays evenly distributed (even after washing) thanks to the quality stitching that keeps everything in place. The fill is designed to mimic the luxurious loft of down without triggering allergies. Customers are taking notice. Verified reviewers say the comforter feels 'light yet cozy,' with many calling it their 'new favorite blanket' for every season. One shopper wrote, 'It is so soft and provides just the right amount of warmth, whether it be keeping me warm or cooling me down when it's hot. It's a very comfortable weight. Extremely well made and would highly recommend!" Oprah Daily's Sleep O-Wards spotlight top sleep products based on comfort, quality, and performance. PeachSkinSheets scored high marks in every category. The comforter also earned recognition from Good Housekeeping as one of the best comforters of 2024, solidifying its reputation as a must-have bedding essential. With prices starting at $195, PeachSkinSheets comforters are an investment, but fans say they're well worth it. And since the company offers a 30-day money-back guarantee, shoppers can try it out risk-free. If you're ready to upgrade your sleep routine and invest in a comforter that actually lives up to the hype, PeachSkinSheets might be the cozy, Oprah-approved answer you've been searching for.
Telegraph
12-05-2025
- Health
- Telegraph
I was a high-functioning depressive – take this quiz to find out if you are too
On paper, Dr Judith Joseph's life had never been going so well. During the Covid pandemic her psychiatric research lab was the only one in the building which had been allowed to remain open, so important was her work on helping people cope with the effects of the pandemic. She'd just received an offer to join an elite female medical board at Columbia University, her Ivy league alma mater, from which she had graduated with honours. The psychiatry practice she had built was so well-respected she was invited to give talks about coping with the lockdowns. She was a regular expert speaker on high-profile television programmes, The Today Show and Oprah Daily. At home, she was happily married and had just welcomed a daughter. Yet one night, sitting alone in her glossy office in Manhattan, Dr Joseph, now 44, had her head in her hands and the admission came bubbling out of her: ' I'm depressed.' 'For me to admit I was depressed was initially a feeling of shame,' Dr Joseph says. 'I thought 'How did this happen? How did this sneak up on me? I'm a psychiatrist and should have known better than to let myself get here. I come from a history of scarcity, from the Caribbean to the US, where we didn't have very much and I felt like I was letting everyone down; like admitting I was depressed was somehow saying that I couldn't handle it.' Yet what Dr Joseph was going through didn't fit the typical definition of depression. 'Clinical depression is characterised by low mood, anhedonia (the lack of ability to feel joy), low concentration, changes in sleep, changes in appetite, low energy, physical agitation or sluggishness, and sometimes suicidal thoughts,' she explains. 'But the key thing is that those symptoms have impaired your functioning. 'I was experiencing all the symptoms, but I wasn't losing function,' she says. 'In fact, I was coping with those symptoms by becoming overly-productive. I felt empty when I wasn't busy. I took on other projects to avoid having to sit still with my thoughts.' Post-lockdown, she separated from her husband. As she began to research her condition, Dr Joseph discovered people online were using the term 'high-functioning depression' to describe similar feelings and soon stumbled upon a hidden world of people suffering in silence. 'I began to wonder, how many people were like me – appearing fine on the outside but wearing a mask of pathological productivity and busying themselves, being the rock, being the entrepreneur, being the parent, in spite of what's happening on the inside?' she wondered. Dr Joseph began to create social media videos about the concept, hoping a handful of fellow psychiatrists might be interested, but soon 'millions of people were responding, telling me they were going through the same thing. That was when I knew I was onto something'. Though high-functioning depression has similarities with workplace burnout, the conditions are distinct. ' Burnout is where work causes people to feel unmotivated, irritable, with low-energy, mentally exhausted,' she explains. 'High functioning depression is the opposite: people feel internal stress and work extra hard to distract themselves from it. Even if you remove the person from the workplace, they're doing something on the weekend, they're taking on other people's problems, they have a packed social schedule, they're cleaning obsessively, they're keeping their brains busy by doom-scrolling. Being busy is how they avoid the problem.' In her research Dr Joseph sees three outcomes for untreated high-functioning depression: clinical depression, physical stress, or people's lives coming apart because of their inability to cope. 'There is the case where someone looks put together and happy, but they fall into a period of hopelessness or even die by suicide,' she says. 'In those who don't dip into clinical depression, their bodies give out. They get diagnosed with odd autoimmune conditions or out of control blood pressure, because the mind-body connection is overwhelmed. The third outcome is people trying to find other ways to run from their pain: I see substance abuse, excessive gambling, obsession with technology; anything to stay busy.' All of this in high-achieving, professional clients or students. In her new book on the subject, High Functioning: Overcome Your Hidden Depression and Reclaim Your Joy, Dr Joseph says: 'Most people with high-functioning depression don't realise they have it. They're not aware that the joy has been removed from their life.' There are many reasons why we may resist the label of high-functioning depression. One is our cultural norms. In the UK, manners encourage us to prioritise the happiness of others over our own, leading to us create even more stress for ourselves in our bid to help others. 'With the good manners which are so highly prized in the UK, people-pleasing is normalised and celebrated. If you're bending over backwards and constantly being told your joy doesn't matter as much as someone else's, you end up feeling a lack of joy in life and become overwhelmed.' High-functioning individuals facing this depression find it difficult to step away from the things that are causing it. 'Those who have trauma put themselves back into traumatising situations,' says Dr Joseph. 'It's our brain's way of trying to control the situation and prevent the same outcome: combat veterans who sign up for additional tours of duty, people who have sexual traumas who throw themselves into chaotic relationships, people who are overloaded at work take on additional work to prove they can handle it.' But if we're so used to high-functioning depression that we can't even realise it, is this just another example of medicalising, or putting yet another mental health label on something that many of us go through? 'I hear that a lot, but feeling joyless all the time is not normal,' asserts Dr Joseph. 'People think happiness is an ideal and it's not, it is vital to our ability to live. We were built with the DNA for joy: there's a reason we have dopamine [a chemical which incites feelings of happiness] in our brains, you are supposed to get pleasure from life. 'So much research shows that being joyful leads to better health outcomes, better salaries, better relationships. It's up to you: you can say that joy isn't important but science begs to differ.' Five years since Dr Joseph admitted to struggling with high-functioning depression, she says her life has changed beyond all recognition. Instead of overloading herself with more projects to cancel out her fear of failure, she has focused her energy back to helping others and feels a joy she hasn't experienced in decades. In 2023, she received a Congressional Proclamation from the US house of representatives for her social media advocacy and research in mental health and has given talks on high-functioning depression at the White House, Ivy League universities and Fortune 500 companies across the US and Europe. 'I want people to know that they have the capacity to increase the amount of joy in their lives,' she says. 'If you deal with your high-functioning depression, everyone will feel it.' High functioning depression: How to break the cycle High-functioning depression is a behavioural pattern, asserts Dr Joseph, and like all behavioural patterns it can be broken. To do that, she recommends following 'the five Vs'. 1. Validation Acknowledging and accepting how you feel. For me, that was when I admitted to myself I was depressed. I'd pushed out those feelings for a long time and when I did that I pushed out my ability to feel joy. 2. Venting Expressing how you feel. Talk to someone, write things in a journal, make art, or even cry. 3. Values I wanted to become a doctor due to my love for patients. Over time I lost sight of those values and my motivation became 'not failing'. Think about your values and remind yourself of why you're functioning so highly. 4. Vitals Sleep, nutrition, movement, but also your relationship to technology (are you doom-scrolling all the time and sapping your energy?); relationships to other people (are you prioritising others over yourself?), and work-life balance – people with high-functioning depression have a hard time separating their work role from who they are personally. 5. Vision How do you plan things that make you happy? Make the time to celebrate your wins, instead of always being onto the next thing. It's important to acknowledge when you do things that you're proud of: that gives you a natural dopamine hit. Celebrate these wins and plan joy in the future otherwise it won't happen.
Daily Mail
29-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Oprah as you've never seen her before! Weight loss queen, 71, debuts trendy new look at Beyonce concert
Oprah Winfrey debuted a fresh look as she attended the opening night of Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter Tour in Los Angeles on Monday. The 71-year-old media mogul, who has dropped more than 40 pounds over the past year-and-a-half, was on trend in wide-leg jeans and sneakers. She was joined by best friend Gayle King, Gayle's daughter Kirby Bumpus, mentee Thando Dlomo, and Tyler Perry. The group coordinated in white, light wash denim, and black leather outfits as they documented their night out. 'Tonight's the night! The outfits have been picked... @ beyonce we are on the way,' King captioned an Instagram post. Winfrey's Oprah Daily account wished them a great time, sharing a video clip and quoting Beyoncé's Texas Hold 'Em in the caption, writing: 'Throw your keys up, @beyonce! Have fun @oprah, @gayleking, @thando_d, @kirbybump, and @nicolemangrumhair.' 'Guess where we're going! We're ready!' Gayle shouted at the top of the snippet before her billionaire pal began chanting, 'Giddyup.' Earlier in the day Oprah Daily shared a piece of content showing the former Oprah Winfrey Show host surprising Thando with a ticket to the highly-anticipated concert. 'I forgot to tell you that I got a ticket for you...' Oprah started before Thando — who was part of the first graduating class of the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy — interjected and said, '...for me to go where?' Thando was in disbelief when her longtime mentor revealed she was going to the opening night of Beyoncé's tour. She broke into song and dance outside of a Whole Foods store in LA as she celebrated. Oprah looked better than ever, layering a light wash denim trench coat over a snug-fitting white turtleneck. The fashion-forward star's face was fully made up, and her thick, brunette locks were arranged in a side part and loose, cascading curls. She accessorized with a pair of round, frameless, lightly tinted sunglasses. Winfrey's Oprah Daily account wished them a great time, sharing a video clip and quoting Beyoncé's Texas Hold 'Em in the caption In late 2023, the Mississippi-born superstar revealed how she shed weight by making a lifestyle change. 'It's not one thing, it's everything. I intend to keep it that way,' she told Entertainment Tonight at the time. Winfrey previously insisted that she had not turned to weight loss drugs. She opened up about body image while speaking at a panel in New York City for Oprah Daily's The Life You Want series in September 2023. 'I don't know that there is another public person whose weight struggles have been exploited as much as mine,' she reflected during a conversation with Weight Watchers CEO Sima Sistani, psychologist Rachel Goldman, and obesity specialists Fatima Cody Stanford and Melanie Jay. She noted she once thought, 'I felt I've got to do this on my own because if I take the drug, that's the easy way out.' Shortly after the panel, the Color Purple star confessed about using GLP-1 medication, 'I now use it as I feel I need it, as a tool to manage not yo-yoing.' 'It quiets the food noise,' she revealed to People in December 2023.
Yahoo
24-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Oprah Winfrey hails Roberta Flack for creating ‘soundtrack to our lives'
Oprah Winfrey has thanked Roberta Flack for creating 'the soundtrack to our lives' after the soul singer's death at the age of 88. The US TV presenter, 71, shared a video of her welcoming the singer on to her chat show to sing hits including Killing Me Softly With His Song, written by Lori Lieberman and Norman Gimbel and composed by Charles Fox. US songwriter Lieberman told the PA news agency that Flack 'exposed this song to the world with her artistry, her talent, her innovation and her heart'. 'I do hope that now she can rest in peace… without her my little song never would have been what it is today, and I'm forever grateful,' she added. In 2022 it was announced the singer had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a progressive neurological condition that made it 'impossible' for her to sing, according to a representative at the time. Publicist Elaine Schock told the PA news agency: 'We are heartbroken that the glorious Roberta Flack passed away this morning, February 24 2025. 'She died peacefully surrounded by her family. 'Roberta broke boundaries and records. She was also a proud educator.' Alongside her Instagram post Winfrey wrote: 'Legendary singer Roberta Flack passed away today at the age of 88. 'Rest in peace, Roberta. Thank you for giving us the soundtrack to our lives.' View this post on Instagram A post shared by Oprah Daily (@oprahdaily) Sean Ono Lennon, the son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, said he was 'heartbroken' by the death of Flack. In a social media post the musician said: 'Roberta Flack was a very close family friend and neighbour. 'She was an incredibly kind woman. Uniquely talented. Roberta Flack was a very close family friend and neighbor. She was an incredibly kind woman. Uniquely talented. I am eternally grateful to have known her. I'm heart broken she had to leave this earth. Will always love you. — Seán Ono Lennon (@seanonolennon) February 24, 2025 'I am eternally grateful to have known her. 'I'm heartbroken she had to leave this earth. Will always love you.' Flack lived in the Dakota Building in New York City at the same time as Sean and his family, and recorded an album of Beatles covers called Let It Be Roberta in 2012. US singer Peabo Bryson called her his 'greatest inspiration' and said: 'My relationship with this iconic and divinely gifted artist and friend, forever changed my life in music and entertainment.' Flack and Bryson, 73, released duet album Born To Love in 1983 which featured their hit Tonight, I Celebrate My Love. US singer and actress Jennifer Hudson hailed Flack as 'one of the great soul singers of all time' in an Instagram tribute alongside a black and white photo of the singer. Veteran radio DJ Tony Blackburn said: 'How sad that Roberta Flack has passed away at the age of 88. 'She gave us so many beautiful songs, I just loved her voice. RIP and thanks for the music.' Gladiator II actor Pedro Pascal posted a photo of Flack alongside a broken heart emoji to Instagram. Flack was born on February 10 1937 in North Carolina but grew up in Virginia and started classical piano lessons at the age of nine. She was awarded a full scholarship to Howard University in Washington DC aged 15 and hoped to become an opera singer, a dream that was put on hold when she returned to North Carolina after her father's death in 1959. She went back to the capital and taught at several schools and in the early 1960s she began accompanying opera singers at the Tivoli opera restaurant in Georgetown, later playing in various clubs in the Washington area before taking up a residency at Mr Henry's. After watching her perform, jazz musician Les McCann helped to launch Flack's recording career and she was signed to Atlantic Records after decades of classical study, teaching music and accompanying opera singers. Her debut album, First Take, was released in 1969 and featured a blend of gospel, soul, flamenco and jazz. One of the songs from the album, The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, catapulted her to stardom after Clint Eastwood used the song as the soundtrack for a love scene in his film Play Misty For Me. It also won the Grammy for record of the year in 1973 and a year later her song Killing Me Softly With His Song won the same gong and Flack won best female pop vocal performance. The tune saw a resurgence in popularity in the 1990s when hip-hop trio Fugees recorded a new version. The singer, who had collaborated with artists including Miles Davis and Donny Hathaway, was awarded a lifetime achievement award by the Recording Academy in 2020. In 2022, a feature-length documentary about the soul singer, called Roberta, told of her rise to stardom against the backdrop of America's civil rights movement.
