Helen Russell
@mshelenrussell.bsky.social
Journalist & Bestselling Author 📚
The Year of Living Danishly 🇩🇰 & more 📚
How to Raise a Viking 🇬🇧/The Danish Secret to Happy Kids 🇺🇸🇨🇦 OUT NOW
The Year of Living Danishly 🇩🇰 & more 📚
How to Raise a Viking 🇬🇧/The Danish Secret to Happy Kids 🇺🇸🇨🇦 OUT NOW
News…
Wildfire ( @wildfirebooks.bsky.social ) to publish author and journalist Helen Russell's ( @mshelenrussell.bsky.social ) new novel, Laura Clark Is Away from Her Desk. Publication is set for late July 2026 👇 #BookSky
Wildfire to publish Helen Russell's new novel
ebx.sh
September 10, 2025 at 7:23 PM
News…
Reposted by Helen Russell
Wildfire ( @wildfirebooks.bsky.social ) to publish author and journalist Helen Russell's ( @mshelenrussell.bsky.social ) new novel, Laura Clark Is Away from Her Desk. Publication is set for late July 2026 👇 #BookSky
Wildfire to publish Helen Russell's new novel
ebx.sh
September 9, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Wildfire ( @wildfirebooks.bsky.social ) to publish author and journalist Helen Russell's ( @mshelenrussell.bsky.social ) new novel, Laura Clark Is Away from Her Desk. Publication is set for late July 2026 👇 #BookSky
How to Hold the Sun: A Danish Midsummer Survival Guide
open.substack.com/pub/mshelenr...
open.substack.com/pub/mshelenr...
How to Hold the Sun: A Danish Midsummer Survival Guide
This week, I had the honour of giving the Sankt Hans bonfire speech for Danes in the UK. In need of a 10 minute caffeinated sunbeam of a pep talk? Here goes...
open.substack.com
June 27, 2025 at 9:23 AM
How to Hold the Sun: A Danish Midsummer Survival Guide
open.substack.com/pub/mshelenr...
open.substack.com/pub/mshelenr...
I still haven’t totally figured out what Bluesky is for but in case it’s this: can anyone tell me what’s happening here?!
June 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I still haven’t totally figured out what Bluesky is for but in case it’s this: can anyone tell me what’s happening here?!
‘Sometimes, sad things just…happen. Sometimes, people die. People leave. Systems fail. Sometimes, bad things happen to good people - who may well have been manifesting their hearts out.’ The M-word and why I don’t like it on @substack open.substack.com/pub/mshelenr...
Sunshine, Sadness & Spectral Queens: Big Feelings at Hampton Court Palace
There’s something surreal about discussing Danish parenting and feeling sad in the shadow of an English royal palace said to be haunted by Catherine Howard...
open.substack.com
May 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
‘Sometimes, sad things just…happen. Sometimes, people die. People leave. Systems fail. Sometimes, bad things happen to good people - who may well have been manifesting their hearts out.’ The M-word and why I don’t like it on @substack open.substack.com/pub/mshelenr...
Joining the Joyfulness Stage at Hampton Court Palace Feel Good Festival on 18th May to talk living Danishly & 📖 How to Raise a Viking 📖 @4thestatebooks.bsky.social See you there?
#feelgoodfestival #hamptoncourtpalace #hamptoncourtfestivals
#howtoraiseaviking
#livingdanishly
#feelgoodfestival #hamptoncourtpalace #hamptoncourtfestivals
#howtoraiseaviking
#livingdanishly
May 6, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Joining the Joyfulness Stage at Hampton Court Palace Feel Good Festival on 18th May to talk living Danishly & 📖 How to Raise a Viking 📖 @4thestatebooks.bsky.social See you there?
#feelgoodfestival #hamptoncourtpalace #hamptoncourtfestivals
#howtoraiseaviking
#livingdanishly
#feelgoodfestival #hamptoncourtpalace #hamptoncourtfestivals
#howtoraiseaviking
#livingdanishly
On going back, being with old friends, finding home (& gout) mshelenrussell.substack.com/p/back-to-th...
April 25, 2025 at 9:30 AM
On going back, being with old friends, finding home (& gout) mshelenrussell.substack.com/p/back-to-th...
Living Danishly in the UK: how it’s going so far in this week’s @theguardian.com podcast www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Live like a Dane: lessons from one of the happiest places on Earth - podcast
Helen Russell talks to Reged Ahmad about her decade living like a Dane
www.theguardian.com
April 22, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Living Danishly in the UK: how it’s going so far in this week’s @theguardian.com podcast www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Reposted by Helen Russell
I loved talking to @mshelenrussell.bsky.social about her former life in Denmark and the lessons we can all take away from it. As winter approaches in Australia there are definitely more opportunities for hygge, to say the least! www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... @australia.theguardian.com
Live like a Dane: lessons from one of the happiest places on Earth - podcast
Helen Russell talks to Reged Ahmad about her decade living like a Dane
www.theguardian.com
April 22, 2025 at 8:32 AM
I loved talking to @mshelenrussell.bsky.social about her former life in Denmark and the lessons we can all take away from it. As winter approaches in Australia there are definitely more opportunities for hygge, to say the least! www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... @australia.theguardian.com
Thanks @theguardian.com - HOW TO RAISE A VIKING (where the Nordics get it right) is out now in paperback, published by @4thestatebooks.bsky.social Photographer of dreams = @emliben.bsky.social
March 8, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Thanks @theguardian.com - HOW TO RAISE A VIKING (where the Nordics get it right) is out now in paperback, published by @4thestatebooks.bsky.social Photographer of dreams = @emliben.bsky.social
Reposted by Helen Russell
Please share :)
And an opportunity for funding for this new MSc is here. A few more weeks to the deadline...
February 15, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Please share :)
Reposted by Helen Russell
This was a good read. My leap year starts in two weeks. I think I’m ready. Or not. It’s okay either way. @mshelenrussell.bsky.social
February 11, 2025 at 4:25 AM
This was a good read. My leap year starts in two weeks. I think I’m ready. Or not. It’s okay either way. @mshelenrussell.bsky.social
The paperback is here! HOW TO RAISE A VIKING - how the Nordic countries manage to make their future humans happier, healthier and more resilient (plus the ideas we can steal to put to use wherever we are) is out in paperback 13.02.25
♥️ 💪 🇩🇰 🇫🇮 🇳🇴 🇮🇸 🇸🇪 uk.bookshop.org/p/books/how-...
♥️ 💪 🇩🇰 🇫🇮 🇳🇴 🇮🇸 🇸🇪 uk.bookshop.org/p/books/how-...
January 31, 2025 at 11:19 AM
The paperback is here! HOW TO RAISE A VIKING - how the Nordic countries manage to make their future humans happier, healthier and more resilient (plus the ideas we can steal to put to use wherever we are) is out in paperback 13.02.25
♥️ 💪 🇩🇰 🇫🇮 🇳🇴 🇮🇸 🇸🇪 uk.bookshop.org/p/books/how-...
♥️ 💪 🇩🇰 🇫🇮 🇳🇴 🇮🇸 🇸🇪 uk.bookshop.org/p/books/how-...
How NOT to Boost Productivity: A Handy Guide for Employers
open.substack.com/pub/mshelenr...
open.substack.com/pub/mshelenr...
How NOT to Boost Productivity: A Handy Guide for Employers
What do you get if you mix a frothing brewer, a former M&S boss and an investment bank? Seven reasons we need the Nordic approach to work-life balance, now
open.substack.com
January 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
How NOT to Boost Productivity: A Handy Guide for Employers
open.substack.com/pub/mshelenr...
open.substack.com/pub/mshelenr...
Anyone else still in elasticated waistbands? Some alternative new year’s pledges for a kinder 2025 mshelenrussell.substack.com/p/come-on-th...
Come on then 2025, let's be having you
Ten resolutions that aren't about punishing ourselves or deprivation and why we all need to embrace årstidsglæde aka 'seasonal joy' (or at least, try)
mshelenrussell.substack.com
January 3, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Anyone else still in elasticated waistbands? Some alternative new year’s pledges for a kinder 2025 mshelenrussell.substack.com/p/come-on-th...
Hope Christmas was kind to you - I got to eat A LOT of sprouts, cry at Neil the Baby’s guitar solo AND write a thing about How to Raise a Viking and parenting in the UK after a decade of living Danishly inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...
December 27, 2024 at 2:08 PM
Hope Christmas was kind to you - I got to eat A LOT of sprouts, cry at Neil the Baby’s guitar solo AND write a thing about How to Raise a Viking and parenting in the UK after a decade of living Danishly inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...
It’s my first Xmas back in the UK, navigating the delights of the placeholder ‘Big Christmas Shop’. Reckon I nailed it? (“What’s for lunch, Mum?” “Ummm…courgettes à la BluTack?”)
December 21, 2024 at 9:26 AM
It’s my first Xmas back in the UK, navigating the delights of the placeholder ‘Big Christmas Shop’. Reckon I nailed it? (“What’s for lunch, Mum?” “Ummm…courgettes à la BluTack?”)
Reposted by Helen Russell
"The most important contributor to our psychological wellbeing is the strength of our relationships, and hygge tends to encourage more close and intimate time with loved ones" ~ @markrwilliamson.bsky.social
www.goodhousekeeping.com/uk/health/he... @mshelenrussell.bsky.social
www.goodhousekeeping.com/uk/health/he... @mshelenrussell.bsky.social
What to do when the weather’s grey and gloomy? Winter like a Viking
Dull days and dark evenings filling you with dread? The Scandinavians know a thing or two about surviving winter – and we can learn a lot from their approach
www.goodhousekeeping.com
December 18, 2024 at 5:07 PM
"The most important contributor to our psychological wellbeing is the strength of our relationships, and hygge tends to encourage more close and intimate time with loved ones" ~ @markrwilliamson.bsky.social
www.goodhousekeeping.com/uk/health/he... @mshelenrussell.bsky.social
www.goodhousekeeping.com/uk/health/he... @mshelenrussell.bsky.social
After living in Europe for 12 years, getting my hands on English language magazines is AN EVENT. And would you believe it, I'm even in a couple this month - Good Housekeeping (on surviving winter like a Scandinavian) and Psychologies (on hygge and happy Vikings). That + coffee = good Wednesday
December 18, 2024 at 11:09 AM
After living in Europe for 12 years, getting my hands on English language magazines is AN EVENT. And would you believe it, I'm even in a couple this month - Good Housekeeping (on surviving winter like a Scandinavian) and Psychologies (on hygge and happy Vikings). That + coffee = good Wednesday
Easy to wrap! An escape from the inlaws! Why books are the perfect gift. My latest is available for Christmas orders now.
It’s the book I needed 10 years ago, with the advice and wisdom I’m using to parent like a Viking back in the UK www.amazon.co.uk/HOW-RAISE-VI...
@4thestatebooks.bsky.social
It’s the book I needed 10 years ago, with the advice and wisdom I’m using to parent like a Viking back in the UK www.amazon.co.uk/HOW-RAISE-VI...
@4thestatebooks.bsky.social
December 17, 2024 at 10:20 AM
Easy to wrap! An escape from the inlaws! Why books are the perfect gift. My latest is available for Christmas orders now.
It’s the book I needed 10 years ago, with the advice and wisdom I’m using to parent like a Viking back in the UK www.amazon.co.uk/HOW-RAISE-VI...
@4thestatebooks.bsky.social
It’s the book I needed 10 years ago, with the advice and wisdom I’m using to parent like a Viking back in the UK www.amazon.co.uk/HOW-RAISE-VI...
@4thestatebooks.bsky.social
Find someone who looks at you the way I look at gammeldags juleboller… (‘olden days Christmas bun’ in Danish). New Christmas Substack here mshelenrussell.substack.com/p/what-ive-l... #livingdanishly
December 13, 2024 at 10:34 AM
Find someone who looks at you the way I look at gammeldags juleboller… (‘olden days Christmas bun’ in Danish). New Christmas Substack here mshelenrussell.substack.com/p/what-ive-l... #livingdanishly