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One More Reason for a Healthy Lifestyle: Exercise might increase vaccines' effectiveness The COVID-19 vaccine holds great promise for...

Chasing Happiness After the week-long hustle in the office, sitting with a cup of masala tea on a Sunday morning always feels delightful...

Recognising empathy as a cornerstone for making a meaningful impact in a post-COVID world: The Shepley Parkin Empathy Award Emerging from...

I’m writing this for anyone who is currently overwhelmed or feeling like they need to take a step back. From anything. From the internet, from your work, from your social life, from your family situation. It’s okay. Sometimes it can be hard to take a step back from things, because it means making a commitment to look after your mental health. But these commitments are important and are not in any way a reflection on you being a bad friend, partner, or person. It is important

I’m tired of feeling guilty for being a working mother. It’s something I’ve been dealing with for a long time, ever since I got back to my laptop six weeks postpartum. Going back to work wasn’t an easy decision for me , but it was a vital one, because my family needed the money, and we couldn’t make the rent on my maternity pay. We often focus on mothers who stay at home to care for their babies, not working. Which is also a valid decision to make, and one that is not easy. B

Animals to the Rescue — Assisted Therapy & Unconditional Love Over the years, I relocated several times for education and work in India....

How everyday activities can allow our brains to be flexible and adaptive across the lifespan Often, people report that their cognitive...

I’ve been writing personal essays ever since I first entered the world of journalism. Personal essays are pieces I enjoy writing, because I lose myself in the words. Throughout my career in journalism, I’ve focused on topics including mental health, sex and relationships, body image, and parenting. I’ve written features and reported on different subjects, but personal essays are something that I focus my work on, because it feels like telling a story. In all honesty, sometime

13 Self-care Tips to Help You Achieve Good Mental Health Mental health has been an increasingly pressing problem in recent years....

The Healing Power of Nature Therapy Ever wondered why you suddenly feel so calm whenever you are in nature? Be it at the park when you...

Giving away everything in search of something more I tossed my backpack into the back and climbed into the passenger seat. It was a...

The Proof is in the Pudding: How Western diets increase our risk for cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s disease The food we eat can...

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Coach App: Relief comes at your fingertips In early 2020, at age 38, I was diagnosed with Borderline...

When I’m not playing video games, I am a research assistant on the eBRAIN study, researching adolescent brain development and mental...

Bans Off Our Bodies: A Californian’s perspective on abortion rights Trigger warning: The following blog contains discussions about...

Those of you who have read my previous two blogs for Inspire the Mind, first on “Glass Delusion” and then on the physician Francis...

I am a big “smiler”. I smile at strangers in the street. I smile when entering a shop. I smile every time I make eye contact, no matter...

COVID-19 has fundamentally changed the nature in which we have been interacting with our friends and reaching out for support. As the...

It goes without saying, this pandemic has been hard on us all. Not being able to be with the people you love is tough and it’s not...

Sleeping constitutes around one-third of our lifetime. To put this statistic into perspective, if you live until 70 years old, around 27...

It goes without saying that this year has been unlike any other in our lifetime. Due to the pandemic, many of our usual Christmas...

Now that government has decided how the festival season is to be celebrated are we any clearer? In some area’s pubs may open but cannot...

For years, many people have advocated that the majority of office work can be done from the comfort of one’s own home. If you are going...

Before we start to really dive in, I have a bit of a confession to make: I think I’m a perfectionist. Ok, well maybe it wasn’t the...