How to set healthy boundaries – and stop letting anxiety and guilt get in the way of living your life

Whether it’s family expectations at Christmas, ground rules in a new relationship or the demands of working from home, people are always overstepping boundaries. But how do you establish a limit – and then stick to it?

Learning new skills can be daunting. Here are four ways to embrace being a beginner

Many of us find grappling with unfamiliar demands anxiety-provoking. Try these steps to ease yourself in

‘You have to be thick-skinned’: what is it like to lose the status of a top job?

After just 45 days as prime minister, Liz Truss has abruptly lost power. How have others such as Lib Dem leader Vince Cable and Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman coped with life after a high-level role – and can they offer any advice?

Tape measures at the ready: do you have enough elbow room at work?

New UK guidelines suggest office staff each need 12 sq metres of space – but Britons are among the most cramped workers in Europe

‘I didn’t see how I could ever get back to a normal life’: how burnout broke Britain – and how it can recover

First smartphones made work inescapable. Then came the pandemic and the cost of living crisis. We are more overstretched and stressed than ever before – but there’s a way out

Rage rooms and primal screams: how stressed-out workers are letting off steam

London’s ‘Screamatorium’ is one way to self-soothe as office tension (and therapy costs) mount

Not just about the money: pioneering study reveals best and worst jobs in UK

‘Full earnings’ account for wellbeing as well as financial reward – and make income gap look even worse

Cambridgeshire council poised to be first in UK to trial four-day week

South Cambridgeshire district council set to vote on pilot of shortened week for 470 desk-based employees

‘I had a very welcome lie-in on Friday’: the joys and challenges of switching to a four-day week

Workers at 70 companies are taking an extra day off each week, on full pay, as part of a UK-wide trial. We asked four of them how they found the first month

Quiet quitting: why doing the bare minimum at work has gone global

The meaninglessness of modern work – and the pandemic – has led many to question their approach to their jobs

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