‘Pushed into humanity’: can learning about storytelling make better doctors?

Narrative medicine encourages doctors to engage more deeply with patients by listening to their stories

How the perils of mountain biking helped me cope with my brain tumour diagnosis

Hurtling down trails on two wheels might not be the most obvious way to cope with a life-changing news but for Tracey Croke it helped her find inner peace

In the year since I quit social media, my screen time has fallen, my mood is up – even my resting heart rate is lower

A snap decision to step away has become a lifestyle shift for Philippa Moore. Though keeping up with friends can be tricky, she has no regrets

I started running during lockdown and still hate it – what counts is I do it anyway

It feels good to be fit but the gift of fitness isn’t to make exercise pleasurable, it’s to make impossible things achievable

The joy of mediocrity: we need hobbies, even if we’re bad at them, to free us from perfection

When I focus on getting better at something, it creates room for failure. I want only carefree pleasure from my down time

‘This was happiness – not a permanent state but a vanishing point’: what makes me happy now

Grappling with grief and isolated by the pandemic, Sarah Holland-Batt found in walking through the forest not a jolting giddy happiness but contentment

Society has never produced so much food, yet we live in a world where only the rich get to be healthy

It’s not a failure of collective willpower that’s jeopardising our health, but a diet of bad food that’s culturally familiar, low in nutrition and super available

Queensland’s refusal to give inmates condoms opens door to legal action, lawyers say

Government warned it could be found liable over contraction of sexually transmitted diseases in only state still opposing distribution

Avoid flat lemonade and don’t starve the bug: what to do when gastro strikes

Experts share their tips for treating viral gastroenteritis at home – and when it’s important to see a doctor

Self-care is important – but we shouldn’t mistake it for feminist action

As long as there is a big gap between the women who have the most freedoms, and those with the least, our work as feminists is not over