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Emotional wellbeing

Live life as a local: Copenhagen

Copenhagen charm by Emily Laurence Baker and Zoe Baker-Peng

Psychologies

22 June 201618 February 2022

Emotional wellbeing

Live life as a local: Lisbon

Lisbon love, by Anita Chaudhuri, who spent a week on a ‘live life as a local’ tour

Psychologies

22 June 201618 February 2022

Emotional wellbeing

Live life as a local: Paris

Paris perfect by Caroline du Pin de Saint André

Psychologies

22 June 201618 February 2022

Emotional wellbeing

Escape to paradise: life on a Greek island

Ever dreamed of chucking in the 9-to-5 to go and live in your favourite holiday destination? Writer Jennifer Barclay did – here, she tells how she let go of the illusion of safety to discover true happiness

Psychologies

21 June 201618 February 2022

Escape to paradise: life on a Greek island

Career

How to balance home and work priorities

Our new columnist, award-winning coach Kim Morgan, meets a woman who puts work before everything else in her life, and tries to help her balance her priorities

Psychologies

20 June 201618 February 2022

Emotional wellbeing

New fiction: This Too Shall Pass

Eithne Farry introduces a new novel by Milena Busquets

Psychologies

19 June 201618 February 2022

Career

Find your focus for a more meaningful life

Consider these questions and tips to help you focus on what you really want

Psychologies

18 June 201618 February 2022

Find your focus for a more meaningful life

Relationships

Just good flatmates: could sharing your home help you?

Caroline Buchanan rented out a room to assist with the bills after a painful divorce. But sharing her home platonically with a man helped her in ways she never envisaged

Psychologies

17 June 201618 February 2022

Just good flatmates: could sharing your home help you?

Emotional wellbeing

Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body

Eithne Farry introduces Sara Pascoe’s thought-provoking new book

Psychologies

17 June 201618 February 2022

Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body

Tests

Test: What kind of couple are you?

Discover which type of couple you are by answering the following questions as honestly as possible, and ask your partner to do it as well! Test by Gilels Donada & Isabelle Niquet

Psychologies

16 June 201618 February 2022

‘The shame was never ours to bear’: how Ruth Ellis’s execution scarred generations of her family

For decades, the execution of Ruth Ellis cast a long shadow over her family, shaping childhoods, relationships and a legacy of trauma. Now, after securing a historic posthumous pardon for her grandmother, Laura Enston tells us how she is reclaiming a story that was once a source of shame.

‘Help — I can’t stop thinking about my married coworker!’: How to stop a workplace crush from becoming an affair

You can’t always control who you’re attracted to, but you can control what happens next. A therapist explains why workplace crushes develop, what they might reveal about your needs, and how to stop attraction from crossing a line.

What happens when the person who murdered your loved one is on death row? The psychology of grief, justice and closure

When someone is murdered, the grief can be devastating. But for families whose loved one’s killer spends decades on death row, the wait for justice can bring its own psychological challenges. Chartered psychologist Dr Ravi Gill explains how repeated delays, anticipatory grief and the hope of an execution can affect the bereavement process – and why closure is rarely straightforward.