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8 ways to feel calmer quickly

Everything feeling a little too much? Here are our expert tips on how to quickly calm yourself down when you need it most.

Psychologies

29 February 20244 March 2024

Dr Martha Deiros Collado — ‘We prioritise our phones over everything else’

Are you getting sick of losing hours of your life to your phone every day, even when you’re trying hard not to? Psychologist and expert Dr Martha Deiros Collado is here to help us take back control from phone addiction… Words: Sally Saunders. Images: Jesse Jenkins After chatting with Dr Martha Deiros Collado, it’s hard […]

Sally Saunders

6 October 20256 October 2025

Physical wellbeing

Your perimenopause mind: managing mood, memory and sleep

Kellie Gillespie-Wright discovers how hormonal changes impact memory, mood, sleep, and energy, why misdiagnosis is common, and how lifestyle, medical care, and emotional support can help women adapt, reframe, and thrive through perimenopause. Words: Kellie Gillespie-Wright. Images: Shutterstock, Pexels Panic attacks. Social withdrawal. Brain fog. A collapsing tolerance for other people’s nonsense. For many women […]

Psychologies

15 September 202515 September 2025

Physical wellbeing

Best perimenopause supplements for mood, sleep and focus

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Psychologies

15 September 202515 September 2025

Emotional wellbeing

How to stay grounded in times of change

Does the back-to-school feeling of September leave you restless and craving something new in your life? Kate Townshend shares her thoughts on the shifting of seasons and whether it’s time to make a change this autumn… Images: Shutterstock, Pexels September has always been an evocative month for me. The whisper of seasonal change in the […]

Psychologies

9 September 202510 September 2025

Family & parenting

How to navigate the transition to an empty nest

Have your children left for university or other ventures? As parenthood takes on a new guise, open yourself up to change and let your empty nest grief give way to opportunity, writes Yasmina Floyer. When I was sixteen, the swell of my life beginning to expand was palpable, the world opening up like a treasure […]

Psychologies

3 September 202510 September 2025

Career

Anna Whitehouse: ‘We’re battery-farmed humans!’

It’s time for a revolution in the workplace, if not for us then for our daughters, says Anna Whitehouse. Here we find out how she’s changing her message to try to get through to businesses, and why she won’t even use the words ‘flexible working’ any more… She’s spent the last decade working towards equality […]

Sally Saunders

29 August 202529 August 2025