Mind

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?

A good book can be an absolute pleasure but research shows that the right book can also be a healing tool.

In the endless quest to be your best self, is it possible that you are missing some of the best parts of life? Are you missing out on the beauty and strength of imperfection?

If you view the notion of discipline in a positive light, it can become an ally to help you to live your best life.

Conventional wisdom tells us that you can feel a little happier if you simply smile, but is this research verified? We take a look at the latest.

Carl Jung’s wise words “what we resist persists” couldn’t be truer. Transcend your resistance by courageously stepping outside your comfort zone to unlock your full potential.

Create the life you want from within by harnessing the power of your imagination.

If you’re suffering from anxiety, depression or low-self-esteem, then Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) could help. It involves redirecting your compassionate mind towards yourself by comforting your inner child with kindness, love and care.

Anxiety is epidemic in the modern digital age but it is far from an exclusively modern problem. Anxiety is part of the human condition and humans have sought to deal with it for as long as we have had self-awareness. That is why the ancient philosophical tradition of Stoicism has a lot of practical advice for those who are overly anxious.