Emotional wellbeing

Suzy Walker, Psychologies Editor spends 3 days at a small but brilliant festival in a field in Warwickshire

Our agony aunt, Mary Fenwick, offers a new perspective on whatever is troubling you

Retreat Editor, founder of Queen of Retreats Caroline Sylge, encourages us to rediscover the benefits of movement – for health and happiness

We’re all fighting our own battles, so treat everyone with kindness – including yourself, says Oliver Burkeman

Is your life bulging at the seams with doing and not enough being? Are you constantly acting and planning, bereft of stopping, resting and relaxing? Do you give, give, give and find it hard to receive? Anita Chaudhuri discovers if it’s possible to find a happier balance

The nutritional benefits and melty, mellow taste of this great British staple get Nutrition Editor Eve Kalinik’s pulse racing

Machines are designed to run constantly, people are not, says Do Pause author Robert Poynton. To prosper, we need to learn to stop, reset and regenerate

When Ellen Tout came out as a teenager, she found the word ‘lesbian’ restrictive. As the queer community moves away from compartmentalising, she asks, wouldn’t all our lives be better without labels?

Ellen Tout tries camping on the edge of a cliff in the Wye Valley