If you want to hit the sweet sleep spot, you’ve got to show it some respect

Ditch the phone, ignore the emails, don’t touch the biscuit tin … and settle down for the recommended seven hours of zzzzz

What I’ve learned from 10 years of therapy – and why it’s time to stop

Therapy was like finding a key for a door that had been locked my whole life. Here are the nine things it’s taught me

‘I feel your pain’: confessions of a hyper-empath

Do you feel other people’s experiences and emotions as strongly as your own? It’s overwhelming being a hyper-empath, but you can also harness it for good

Number of inactive adults in England rises by 1.3m since Covid

Survey shows at least 12 million exercise less than 30 minutes a week, although levels starting to recover

Seven hours’ sleep is ideal amount in middle to old age, study finds

Too much and too little sleep linked with worse cognitive performance and mental health

A moment that changed me: my dream job healed my excruciating pain

The autoimmune disease lupus had ruined my life until I landed an interview at the Southbank Centre. After years of trying to fit in I’d found my tribe – and a way to get better

I’m 70; my wife is 65. Is she right to say that’s too old for sex?

It’s been years since we were intimate – even on special occasions

Everything I thought before the birth of my son now feels naive and misinformed

From non-mother to mother: the scale of the change is almost unspeakable, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

My party outfit was so fancy I couldn’t even use the toilet. Some joker still told me I looked ‘comfy’

I like a compliment as much as the next woman. But why do they so often leave us smarting, asks the comedian, actor and writer Jessica Fostekew

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