Being in denial can’t stop ageing, so start embracing it
Dr Becca Levy is a Yale professor and the author of the new book Breaking The Age Code, which examines how your beliefs about ageing will determine…
‘We need help’ – one grandmother’s heartbreaking plea for urgent support
Two weeks ago, I wrote about the desperate state of mental health provision in this country and asked you to write in with your experiences of accessing…
Disney’s Turning Red is teaching children about periods – and that’s a good thing
If men got periods, you can bet your bottom dollar that they would have made a movie about it in the 1930s. Then again, if men got…
It’s time the Government walked the walk on mental health services
Yet mental health charities and campaigners have become used to empty promises from people in power, and are not expecting to be surprised when Chancellor Rishi Sunak…
We’ve all grieved over something in the pandemic – and we shouldn’t hide that
My smartphone has a habit of reminding me of things from the past. Just this morning, it flagged up a memory of me two years ago, in…
Principled leaders like Volodymyr Zelensky are the exception, not the rule
So perhaps the best long term solution to this feeling of utter powerlessness is to question why, exactly, we always look to the loudest and lairiest for…
A walk in the woods can be just as good as a trip to the therapist
The Duchess of Cambridge has been in Denmark, whizzing down slides at the Lego Foundation in Denmark and discovering the importance of play as part of her…
Catching Covid was fine – isolation was the really scary part
Vaccines and less serious illness mean it is time to stop locking ourselves away – for it is a bitter irony that, in a bid to preserve…
Our phones are coming between us – it’s time to call it a day
And because of this, my break-up with my phone is having to take place in stages. First, the removal of apps like Instagram from my home screen,…