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

‘Last night I was James Bond’: the vivid world of lockdown dreams

People are ‘living’ a richer and more detailed life in their sleep during the Covid-19 crisis, a research group has found

Isabel Hardman: ‘One of my most exciting botanical finds was in a Glasgow car park’

The journalist and author on how nature can boost mental health treatment, even on lockdown

Getting good at waiting: ‘You want something that challenges you, but not too much’

With half the world in lockdown due to Covid-19, we are all experiencing the agony of waiting, but there are techniques that make this state more bearable

Climbing the walls? How to cope as a family when you can’t escape each other

Our advice columnist on how to handle everything from clashes in parenting styles to elderly parents in denial

Fit in my 40s: the upsides of remote therapy

Coronavirus means all the rules have gone out the window and there is much more room for experimentation

Sanity, stability and stress-relief: why our beloved pets have never been more important

They are time-keepers, normality-bringers and playthings. Here’s the science behind how cats and dogs help support our mental health