Don’t insist on being positive – allowing negative emotions has much to teach us
Leaning into difficult feelings can help you find the way forward, according to a refreshing new wave of books, says Jamie Waters
After my sister died I didn’t know what to do with my furious pain – but poets and horses led the way
I was heartbroken and angry but horse riding and medieval poetry revealed the quest I was on, says Clover Stroud
Having a near-death experience taught me how to live better
After an ectopic pregnancy that ruptured, Georgina Scull spoke to people around the world facing death – and discovered the regrets they want us all to learn from
‘My head was completely free’: the rise of climbing as therapy
Supporters of climbing therapy say it can help people focus on the here and now and provide relief from the whirlwind of modern life
Books are my refuge, but I had to overcome dyslexia to write the stories I was bursting to tell
Nobody could read my writing but, desperate to conjure another world, I eventually became an author
Are you anxious, introverted or just a ‘highly sensitive person’?
Kanye West and Lorde say they are HSPs. What’s the science behind this newly popular label for understanding our ability to process feelings?
My mum’s memory was fading, until we made curtains together – a beautiful parting gift
Just before she moved away, my increasingly forgetful mum remembered exactly how to get to grips with an old craft
Making dreams come true: inside the new age world of manifesting
Can hopes become reality just through the power of positive thinking? Yes, say the latest new age gurus and their – suggestible – audiences
Hitting the high notes: the lessons of all singing from the same sheet
Singing with others is a joyful thing, even in difficult times, writes Joe Moran
If you find everyone else boring you only have yourself to blame
Birdwatchers, church-goers and TV addicts are considered dull, according to new research. But this is stereotyping - let’s embrace the mundane
My son’s passion for football has reawakened in me a deep sense of belonging
My nine-year-old’s curiosity about the place I grew up and where generations of my family were raised has made me look at it with new eyes, says Robert Yates
A new start after 60: ‘I became a psychotherapist at 69 and found my calling’
Having worked as an architect and photographer, run a bookshop and brought up four children, Bryony Harris has always sought new challenges. But becoming a therapist, she says, felt like coming home
Ten years of my art was lost in a fire I accidentally started – but I made better work from the ashes
A devastating fire in my studio forced me to approach painting and life in a new way
Mary-Frances O’Connor: ‘People struggle to understand grief, but it is a byproduct of love’
The US psychology professor talks about her new book on the experience of losing a loved one and the lessons we can learn
To be happy you have to feel you belong
Psychiatrist Holan Liang, the daughter of Chinese immigrants, discovered for herself how important a sense of belonging is