Feeling down? You need to experience more awe, psychologists say. So I set off every day to explore my local area, leaving my phone behindI am in the middle of a cloud, halfway up a steep pike, and on a mission to get some awe. I am here thanks to a ne…
Cake was my first love – it sees me through life’s highs and lows
There should be no guilt with cake, only romance – in the making, the display, the history… and, of course, the eatingThe Great British Bake Off is back! Sales of baking utensils skyrocket when the amateur baking show is on. It appears we’re all cake m…
Fear on the ward: UK mothers threatened with social services for refusing maternity care
Women who turn down advice from health service staff say they are being coerced with threats of referrals to agencies and policePregnant women and new mothers are being referred to social services by midwives for refusing to follow their advice, patien…
Indigenous Amazon singers and sacred cacao … the UK festival that’s wild in a different way
The Medicine weekender specialises in nature and cultural exchange – a rare festival that you leave feeling better than when you arrivedOn a stage in a yurt in the Berkshire countryside, the leader of the Huni Kuin tribe from the Brazilian Amazon is ta…
Can a mother ever be good enough? I know what my son would say … | Zoe Williams
My almost 14-year-old is annoyed that I think his birthday is a bigger deal for me than it is for him. Still, it will always be my special dayI was casually telling my son, before his 14th birthday this week, why it was a bigger deal for me than it was…
Screen time: are Harry and Meghan right to limit it to just 20 minutes?
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are advising visitors to their Archewell website to take regular screen breaks. How does this approach line up with the evidence?Name: Screen time.Age: It’s less about how old, more about how long. Continue reading…
Facebook pauses work on Instagram Kids after teen mental health concerns
Move follows WSJ revelations that Facebook-commissioned research showed Instagram could affect girls’ mental healthFacebook has halted work on its Instagram Kids project after revelations about the photo-sharing app’s impact on teen mental health.Insta…
Watch for changed behaviour, be empathic, know your limits: how to be a mental health first aider
It can be hard to spot the signs of mental ill-health in friends and colleagues, and harder still to raise the subject with them. This expert advice might make it easierYou may have a fairly good idea of what to do if someone breaks an arm, or even sto…
Rhik Samadder tries … track cycling: ‘It’s like being overtaken by lorries on a motorway designed by Escher’
I am clamped into a razor-thin perineum-mashing machine with no brakes. What could possibly go wrong?This is hardly the place to admit it, but I hate cyclists. I never know if they are going to stop at traffic lights or plough through; they’re often ve…
Tell us: how do you cope with insomnia?
If you suffer from insomnia, we would like to hear from those with insomnia about what they do when they can’t sleepInsomnia is a common sleep disorder that can make it difficult to fall asleep or even stay asleep. It skyrocketed during the pandemic – …