Are our personalities set in stone, or can we work on – even improve – them?

Ask yourself what your ideal personality will be and, with self-awareness and repetitive practice, traits will follow. Jamie Waters reports

Finding time for creativity will give you respite from worries

Drawing, singing, writing, knitting… lose yourself in something creative to find inner calm. You might also come up with solutions to problems

Stuck inside feeling lockdown-anxious?

Get off the sofa and become an ‘exerciser’

All about my father: chef Ravinder Bhogal on her distant dad

My father was exiled from my emotional life – and it was only when he was dying that I started to understand why

How artificial intelligence helped me overcome my dyslexia

I rely on apps for help with spelling and grammar as if they were old friends. Now I’m a tech entrepreneur

I run to keep fit, but I hate it

No one would argue that running isn’t good for you, but do we really have to pretend to like it, too?

Liz Hall obituary

Other lives: Psychotherapist who wrote a handbook for female survivors of sexual abuse

Creative therapy and shared support can help with grief after losing a child

A retreat for grieving parents provides therapeutic benefits, writes Sharon Walker, whose daughter was stillborn 22 years ago

I’m a survivor! How resilience became the quality we all crave

During the pandemic it has become a buzzword for successfully steering through adversity. But what exactly is resilience - and can you cultivate more of it?

Rise to the challenge: my very own bake off

For many, baking is therapeutic. But is cooking along with Bake Off really such a good idea, asks Emma Beddington