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The Quarter Life Glow‑up: a new email course from The Conversation

Many of us feel pressure to transform ourselves. Just spend a few minutes scrolling social media, and you’re likely to come across several videos telling you about various challenges and tips to help you have a “glow-up”. Most of these tips are about physical appearance – drinking more water to clear your skin, or spending 75 days doing hardcore workouts.

The Quarter Life Glow-up is a little different. This six-week newsletter course from The Conversation’s UK and Canada editions will suggest ways you might be able to improve your social life, relationships, mental health and career – without breaking a sweat, spending money or revamping your skincare routine.

The course is aimed at readers in their 20s and 30s. This is a period of life where many of us make big decisions that will affect us the rest of our lives – from careers, to relationships, to parenthood. The tips in the course will hopefully help you make some of those decisions, but they’ll remain helpful for many years to come.

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When you sign up for the course, you’ll get six weeks of research-backed analysis, expert advice and challenges delivered straight to your inbox. Each week will bring you two new articles, a note from our editors and a bite-size activity to help you try it at home.


Click here to sign up for The Quarter Life Glow-up.


Here are some of the topics you’ll read about:

  • how to set healthy boundaries
  • how to finally do that thing you’ve been putting off
  • how to stop comparing yourself to others
  • how to find joy in new hobbies.

The Glow-up takes what The Conversation does best – accessible, rigorous content – and shows you how to apply it in your own life. You can start your glow-up at any time. And like all our content, it’s free to access and has no ads or subscriptions.

What are you waiting for? Start your glow-up today.