After becoming obsessed with self-help, I had to heal from ‘healing’
How the writer found her ongoing fixation on self-development was actually working against her
‘I was sexualised, patronised and ridiculed’: how Charlotte Church survived the tabloids to become an earth mother
Charlotte Church has lived her life in the full glare of publicity, rising from child star to tabloid target. Now, happier and more free than ever, she’s found her feet – and her voice – at her healing retreat in the Welsh valleys
Gifts for runners: the best shoes, socks and vests to buy the running enthusiast in your life
From pro athletes to parkrun enthusiasts, runners of all stripes told us what gifts they would love to unwrap
The best Mother’s Day gifts: 68 thoughtful ideas for £50 and under they’ll love
From a reading light to a gardening knife, a meditation cushion to a birthstone ring, these fun, and often useful, gifts tick every box
Dining across the divide: ‘She casts meditation as a cult. I don’t think retreats mean harm’
They bonded over studying languages and becoming teachers. Would they see eye to eye on meditating?
Covid ‘benevolence bump’ endures as acts of kindness 10% higher than before 2020
World Happiness Report finds volunteering more frequent in most regions as Finland tops chart again and Costa Rica and Mexico enter top 10
‘I’ve had seals nibble my toes!’ How sunkissed Cornwall became a 422-mile surf paradise
Surfing? It’s as Cornish as piracy and pasties. As a thrilling exhibition opens in ‘Britain’s California’, we enter a heady world of coffinboards, hotdogging Aussies – and bans dished out to gangs fighting on the beach
Martin Skirrow obituary
Microbiologist whose discoveries transformed the treatment of infectious diarrhoea and stomach ulcers
The thin-obsessed world is growing more vicious by the minute. But fat people aren’t going anywhere
It’s time to open up your big fat mouths and push back against fatphobia
Otty Original Hybrid mattress review: the best hybrid mattress you can buy – and also one of the cheapest
This ‘bed-in-a-box’ mattress gave our tester her best sleep in years and it’s hundreds of pounds cheaper than some of its rivals