A new start after 60: I fought off four attackers – and earned my aikido black belt

Morag Warrack, 68, was so shy it took her a year to pluck up the courage to take her first aikido lesson. Now she’s giving them

Hot ticket: 10 of the best pop-up saunas in the UK

There’s never been a better time to embrace your inner Scandi with a cold plunge and a steam clean

How an epic climb lifted one woman out of life’s lowest point

In emotional pain, Jessica Hepburn decided to climb to the top of the world and listen to every single available episode of Desert Island Discs

Fat-shaming Keir Starmer was wrong, but we all judge people by their appearance

What makes us believe in people we perceive as attractive, and can we ever break the habit?

It’s not the economy, stupid: wellbeing is the real vote-winner

In 2011, I launched a campaign called Action for Happiness. A week before the World Happiness summit, why can’t we all be more content, asks Richard Layard

‘Unexploded bombs’: call for action after 11 deaths in UK due to e-bike fires

Dangerous batteries and conversion kits still being sold online, new safety data reveals

I feel for Keir Starmer. I too have suffered the sting of fat-shaming

I hope the leader of the opposition shrugged it off when Peter Mandelson commented on his weight. But I know how words can wound

My first time in a spin class: ‘I’m unable to escape. My feet are locked to the bike’

In her fortnightly review of fitness and wellbeing activities, comedian Jennifer Wong endures two wheels, 45 minutes and the sounds of 50 Cent.

Every step above 2,200 steps a day reduces risk of early death, study finds

Research suggests every extra step up to 10,000 reduces risk even if rest of the day is sedentary

A moment that changed me: I went skinny-dipping in Antarctica – and realised I could survive anything

Stalking was making my life at McMurdo Station a misery. In the ice-covered sea, I discovered how much the world still had to give