Behind a ballerina’s beautiful performance lie hours of discipline, tenderness and an abiding attention to detail ...

is an artist, writer and mudlark who has spent years discovering objects from centuries past in London’s River Thames.

Well-meaning campaigns urge openness and conversation about mental health struggles. But there are those who cherish silence ...

The early Chinese philosophers knew that a healthy mind comes from a harmonious community, not a matter for individuals alone Mental illness is often thought to be a matter of individual disorder.

Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Minnesota, US ...

Steve Schwartzberg’s journey from Harvard psychologist to erotic healer, Buddhist and teacher was always haunted by death. Then he was diagnosed with terminal cancer ...

Deciding to give more experiences a second chance changed my personality for the better and made me a happier person ...

A magazine to help you understand your self and live well ...

Studies of longterm friends offer surprising insights as to whether friends who are more or less alike tend to endure Bring to mind the friendships in your life: what do you think makes some of them ...

As a schoolboy in Soviet Russia in the 1960s, my hands were almost never clean. Don’t get me wrong – I washed them as much as anyone else. But the school rules made us practise our penmanship in ink, ...

The pursuit of happiness is many people’s primary goal in life, and a subject that’s occupied countless philosophers and psychologists over the millennia. It is usually painted as an effortful and ...

On my winter walks, I like to observe the architecture of tree trunks. Usually trunks are hidden from view under the enrobing green foliage of spring and summer, or the colourful blaze that typifies ...