I like the sound of my own voice – but does that make me a narcissist?
Millennials are said to be more narcissistic than any other cohort of society. A self-confessed self-obsessive works out whether that’s a problem
‘I prefer being physically distant. What happens if I don’t want to return to normal life?’
Some of us are discovering benefits to life during Covid-19, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith, but that suggests you need to change what ‘normal life’ means for you
Lockdown is straining so many relationships. A lot of people need help
Romantic and family ties are facing new kinds of challenges. Maybe there’s something the state can do, says Observer chief leader writer Sonia Sodha
Sara Maitland: ‘Savour solitude – it is not the same as loneliness’
The author of How to Be Alone argues that concerns about the effects of lockdown may be misplaced
The Well Gardened Mind by Sue Stuart-Smith; The Natural Health Service by Isabel Hardman – review
A fascinating pair of books on the therapeutic potential of the natural world
Scars: how our wounds make us who we are – video
Scars are not just skin deep – emotional and psychological histories lie beneath the healed wounds
Barefoot in the park: the joy of walking over rocks and roots
On moving to the Canadian Rockies, the writer barely left home for fear of bears, but overcame it by feeling the Earth beneath her feet
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith’s lockdown listening: ‘Doing handstands, that’s the time for music’
The LA ambient composer shares what she’s been listening to while upside down, from Caribou to Zimbabwean polyrhythms
Therapy under lockdown: ‘I’m just as terrified as my patients are’
The long read: In a pandemic, the best we can do to take care of one another is to stay away from one another. Even Freud at his most misanthropic could never have come up with that
Farewell workplace burnout: will coronavirus slow the manic pace of our modern lives?
Here’s hoping the pandemic forces a rethink of our obsession with work and the culture of busyness