Here you will find a selection of features I have written on lifestyle, health and travel. I have recently written about 25 consumer health features for the new NHS website (see examples below). I have also worked as a commissioning editor and writing online news for health publications and websites.
Files are links to websites, PDFs or JPEGs. Please click on article title or page number to view and enlarge. From August 2006, only the first page of each article is usually on this site.
New! Modern Marriage Guidance Cosmo Bride, August/September 2008. Miss to Mrs isn't just a change of title. Every bride-to-be on Facebook knows the power unleashed when you change your status from 'single' to 'engaged'. With one word, all your friends see you in a different light. Here's how to make your new status work for your career, friendships and sex life.
Your Day, Your Way Cosmo Bride, June/July 2008. Discovering that having the wedding you want isn't as easy as you hoped? Bride-to-be Olivia Gordon feels your pain
I was a panelist discussing the ethics of cosmetic surgery on Press TV, an Iranian news channel, on March 16 2008. See the programme here.
Far East Meets West Sussex Sunday Telegraph, 24 February 2008. Orientalism is blooming in the county's great gardens. Olivia Gordon explores a perrenial favourite.
Take to the Open Road The Telegraph, 6 October 2007. Travel report on self-drive South Africa.
Want to Explore More? The Telegraph, 6 October 2007. Travel report on exploring Kwa-Zulu Natal in South Africa
Feed Your Child's Mind http://www.nhs.uk/
Help, I Need Somebody http://www.nhs.uk/
10 Ways To Fight Your Fears http://www.nhs.uk/
Talking Therapies http://www.nhs.uk/
Talking To Children http://www.nhs.uk/
Talking To Your Teenager http://www.nhs.uk/
Brain Boosts For Over-60s http://www.nhs.uk/
10 Ways Quitting Smoking Will Make Your Life Better http://www.nhs.uk/
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Take Me Out of My Comfort Zone Psychologies, September 2007. Travel feature on a flamenco dancing holiday in Spain.
The Insider Seven Magazine, The Sunday Telegraph 22 July 2007. The moor the merrier: Olivia Gordon travels to Haworth for a Bronte fest...
Cape Town Calling July 2007. An extract from my book The Agony of Ecstasy has just been used in this new South African anthology of contemporary writing on the mother city.
Stop Stressing Now! NW, July 2007. A 6-page 21st-century guide to career, cash, body...and even babies!
Get on the Waiting List Now! NW, June 2007. These treatments are so red hot, you're gonna have to get in line
Never Mind the Gap Stella, 28 April 2007. More women than ever are taking up with much younger partners. But why do they do it - and what have they got against men their own age? Four 'down-daters' tell Olivia Gordon about the benefits and burdens of cross-generational love.
Meet the Ancestors Psychologies, April 2007. Olivia Gordon travels to Lithuania to find out about her family's history...
Are You in Hormone Hell? NW, April 2007. Hormones driving you mad? Not to worry...
Living With a Real Size-Zero Observer Woman, 11 March, 2007. Four men tell Olivia Gordon about the women they love, for whom 'thin' is a constant state of mind
Here Comes the Sun NW, February 2007. How one reader stopped her self-harm
What I know Now She, November 2006. Having married the man of her dreams, Nuala Bingham, 39, predicted a rosy future. Little did she know that her happiness, and her very existence, would soon be tested to the limit. She tells her story to Olivia Gordon.
Woman's Hour Review Observer Review, 1 October 2006.
The Hormone that Makes You Fat Daily Mail, 12 September 2006. When Chessy put on three stone in a few weeks, doctors said she must be eating too much. In fact, like millions of women, she suffered from an undiagnosed problem with her thyroid.
Babies Look Like Maggots to Me REAL, 2006. The extreme phobias ruining women's lives
How to Make an Extra £20,000 This Year REAL, January 2006.
Wedding Heaven and Hell REAL, 2006. More and more couples are marrying abroad - but is it always the paradise it's cracked up to be?
The Curse of the Ex Wives REAL, 2006. It's his second try at marriage and you're both in that blissful honeymoon period - what could possibly go wrong?
Eat Yourself Super REAL, 2006. Superfoods for vitality
Destination: Danger Zone The Guardian (G2), 24 August 2006. How many of us think of the health risks when booking holidays in far-off places? Olivia Gordon offers a guide to what to avoid where.
Not Wasted, Not High and Not Crazy The Guardian (G2), 27 April 2006. Sarah Jenner has a condition which caffects her speech. When she was viciously attacked in her own home, police dismissed her as drunk. She tells Olivia Gordon about life with ataxia.
Baby Yoga I-Child, 2006.
Top Days Out for Under-Fives I-Child, 2006.
Daddy Cool REAL, 2005. Would you let your husband stay at home?
Deja Vu You REAL, 2005. Olivia Gordon tries out past life regression to find out who she was before
Diets For the 21st Century REAL, 2005. Three readers road test the latest diets
Foods for Health & A to Z of Anti-Ageing REAL, 2005.
The Biggest Loser REAL, 2005. The story of a woman who lost weight on a reality show.
Up to Date REAL, 2005. One reader gets a dating makeover
Eye Catching REAL, 2005. A reader's eye cosmetic surgery diary