Anxiety can be good for you
It’s never going to be fun, but it can be healthy – and facing up to it is always better than hiding, says Kate Smith
How to rebuild a life after the death of a partner
Losing someone you love dearly is devastating, but the bond couples shared in life is vital to those who live on, says Juliet Rosenfeld
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
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
After my sister died I didn’t know what to do with my furious pain – but poets and horses led the way
I was heartbroken and angry but horse riding and medieval poetry revealed the quest I was on, says Clover Stroud
Having a near-death experience taught me how to live better
After an ectopic pregnancy that ruptured, Georgina Scull spoke to people around the world facing death – and discovered the regrets they want us all to learn from
‘My head was completely free’: the rise of climbing as therapy
Supporters of climbing therapy say it can help people focus on the here and now and provide relief from the whirlwind of modern life
Books are my refuge, but I had to overcome dyslexia to write the stories I was bursting to tell
Nobody could read my writing but, desperate to conjure another world, I eventually became an author
Are you anxious, introverted or just a ‘highly sensitive person’?
Kanye West and Lorde say they are HSPs. What’s the science behind this newly popular label for understanding our ability to process feelings?
My mum’s memory was fading, until we made curtains together – a beautiful parting gift
Just before she moved away, my increasingly forgetful mum remembered exactly how to get to grips with an old craft