Marialena Ioannidou

The human brain processes and filters more than 70,000 thoughts in a day, including memories, future plans, emotions, stress and much more. The repeated and constant reminiscence of the past, fantasizing about the future, and the questions raised about the present is an everyday thing for many peop…

Living in a world of image and appearance, we have an absurd demand from others - but also from ourselves - to be perfect in everything we do. Anyone who deviates from this so-called "perfection" and excellence, is automatically excluded from social events. What we forget though, is that none of us…

History is full of women's cries drowned out... We do not forget, after all, all those women - even if we do not know who or precisely how many they were - whose achievements or skills have been forgotten, buried by the haughty gaze of patriarchy over the centuries. And probably there are so many…

How to lose a guy in 10 days, Notting Hill, 10 things I hate about you, Clueless... These are just a few of the well-known Hollywood films that fall into the genre of rom-coms. Believe me when I say that I could list many more as I have seen all - or almost all - of them. For the record, if you don…

Florence Welch, the lead vocalist of the band “Florence and the Machine” by the song ”The King” subverts stereotypes by focusing on what truly constitutes woman nature and highlighting the superpower that surrounds it. It breaks the chain of the roles that women are expected to embody, laying new…

How many times have you had a close person to you talking about a person they are romantically interested in they met through Instagram or Tinder? How many times have you met such a person? It is more likely that you answered yes  to the above-mentioned queries. Instagram, Facebook, Messenger,…