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

Seven hours’ sleep is ideal amount in middle to old age, study finds

Too much and too little sleep linked with worse cognitive performance and mental health

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

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

Tonight in Britain the clocks will go forward – all except mine

With the EU and US voting to scrap hour changes, I’m glad to see the world finally catching up with me, says Stefano Pavone, founder of anti-daylight savings movement Hora Solaris

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