Emotional wellbeing

Every month, Martha Roberts invites you to road-test research around feeling good – this time, is watching too much TV actually making you unhappy?

Making excuses about finding the time or a place for exercise? Make the effort – you’ll be surprised how good you feel if you start trying to build it in again…

Deputy editor Lauren Hadden had to dry her eyes to tell you about this month’s Psychologies Book Club choice

Tori Haschka offers up a recipe for a delicious dessert with an autumnal feel

Comedian and actor Helen Lederer has for three decades performed stand-up, appeared on panel shows, and acted in sitcoms including Bottom and Absolutely Fabulous. She shares her values with us

This inspiring story of solidarity and union is coming to a screen near you

Great loss brings devastation, confusion and hope, as this stunning apocalypse novel proves

Picked by Psychologies as our Book of the Month back in April this year, Karen Joy Fowler’s heartbreaking, thought-provoking novel ‘We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves’ has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014. Read our original review here:

Can you really make big shifts in thinking and healing in just one day? Suzy Greaves, Psychologies’ editor books herself into unique retreat in the wilds of Essex to find out

Brain Food doctor and mindfulness coach Barbara Mariposa offers her top tips on how to practice mindfulness in when taking exercise