Making dreams come true: inside the new age world of manifesting

Can hopes become reality just through the power of positive thinking? Yes, say the latest new age gurus and their – suggestible – audiences

Hitting the high notes: the lessons of all singing from the same sheet

Singing with others is a joyful thing, even in difficult times, writes Joe Moran

If you find everyone else boring you only have yourself to blame

Birdwatchers, church-goers and TV addicts are considered dull, according to new research. But this is stereotyping - let’s embrace the mundane

My son’s passion for football has reawakened in me a deep sense of belonging

My nine-year-old’s curiosity about the place I grew up and where generations of my family were raised has made me look at it with new eyes, says Robert Yates

A new start after 60: ‘I became a psychotherapist at 69 and found my calling’

Having worked as an architect and photographer, run a bookshop and brought up four children, Bryony Harris has always sought new challenges. But becoming a therapist, she says, felt like coming home

Ten years of my art was lost in a fire I accidentally started – but I made better work from the ashes

A devastating fire in my studio forced me to approach painting and life in a new way

Mary-Frances O’Connor: ‘People struggle to understand grief, but it is a byproduct of love’

The US psychology professor talks about her new book on the experience of losing a loved one and the lessons we can learn

To be happy you have to feel you belong

Psychiatrist Holan Liang, the daughter of Chinese immigrants, discovered for herself how important a sense of belonging is

Colleagues aren’t celebrated much in the annals of friendship – but I’ve really missed mine

After-work drinks on Zoom are not the same as in the office or the pub. I can’t wait to reconnect

The big idea: is it time to stop worrying about stress?

Our beliefs about difficult feelings may do more damage than the feelings themselves