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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

5 ways to build adult friendships for better health and wellbeing

Discover why adult friendships are often undervalued, how loneliness affects wellbeing, and find our 5 practical tips for building meaningful, low-pressure friendships that can improve your life in powerful ways. Words: Kellie Gillespie-Wright, Images: Shutterstock, Pexels Friendship isn’t just a bonus — it’s a vital part of our mental and physical health. We live in […]

Psychologies

16 May 202516 May 2025

Best supplements for hormone balance: PMS, perimenopause & menopause

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Psychologies

15 May 202515 May 2025

Mental health

Is community the key for better mental health?

To mark this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week, Kelly Gillespie-Wright discovers why community is so crucial to our mental health. Words: Kellie Gillespie-Wright. Images: Pexels There’s a quiet truth many of us are waking up to right now: we weren’t meant to do this alone. For too long, we’ve treated mental health as a private […]

Psychologies

14 May 202516 May 2025

Physical wellbeing

Davina McCall — ‘I just get happier and happier the older I become’

Davina McCall on regaining confidence, what wellbeing means to her, and one thing she would tell her younger self. Images: Ancient + Brave PA She’s not many people’s idea of a wallflower or a shrinking violet, but even the bubbly, outgoing Davina McCall has suffered from a crisis of confidence at times. ’In midlife, when […]

Psychologies

9 May 2025

Friendships

How to make friends (and keep them!)

Making new friends as an adult can be tricky. Here, experts share their advice on making friends, and give 6 tips to keeping them, too.

Psychologies

7 May 20259 May 2025

Mindfulness

6 ways to reclaim your attention span

Worn out by getting distracted all the time? Yasmina Floyer finds out how to take back control Words: Yasmina Floyer As a teen and young adult, I could read for vast swathes of time undistracted. But recently, I read a (short!) newsletter, where the writer bemoaned the fact that she can no longer read for […]

Psychologies

25 April 202525 April 2025