Mind

As she grieved the loss of her unborn child, one reader was surprised to find it brought an unexpected sense of ease and presence into her life.

Psychological courage involves facing a deep-seated fear of acknowledging and accepting your faults and vulnerabilities. We look at how you can confront the truth of your behaviours and elicit change.

Daydreaming and allowing your imagination to run free is not only an effective way to creatively problem solve, it’s also a sure-fire way to promote greater wellbeing.

Social media can often make us feel inadequate or not good enough. Do you want to move away from comparison and towards self-acceptance?

By making simple yet deliberate changes to the way you interact with the world around you, you have an opportunity to help, inspire, support and delight others in kind and thoughtful ways.

Daydreaming and allowing your imagination to run free is not only an effective way to creatively problem solve, it’s also a sure-fire way to promote greater wellbeing.

When change happens in life, it can be a shock or a more subtle shifting under the surface. Either way, change can rewrite the rules and challenge your assumptions and expectations about what works, what the future holds and even how you perceive yourself.

Finding opportunities for stillness throughout your day helps soothe the nervous system for optimal health.

Needing help is not a weakness. Learn how to step beyond society’s love affair with self-reliance and embrace your vulnerabilities.

By medicalising your emotions, you reduce or minimise your true self and look to problem solve rather than to understand what is really going on for you. Learn how to stop fixing and start feeling again.

By learning to surrender, one reader discovered he could transmute his darkness into creativity and peace.

Oscar Wilde is credited with saying, “Be yourself. Everyone else is taken.” Easier said than done, perhaps. In a world where we are expected to look and act in a certain way, we end up pleasing everyone but ourselves. In order to belong we bury our true selves and this can lead to despair. So how would it feel if the only role you play this lifetime is to just be yourself?