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

I was 14 years old when I decided I wanted to become a writer. I took media studies as one of my subjects for GCSE, and I remember my media teacher quite sternly telling me that I’d never make it in the media world. I was 19 when I got my first writing job, a freelance commission for The Debrief. I’d always been a blogger, whether that was through Tumblr or Wordpress. I’ve always loved to write. Being a journalist was something I had always wanted — lifestyle writing, in part

When I was pregnant with my son, I turned to online baby groups and motherhood websites for support and to learn what I was in for when he finally arrived. While some of the experience was positive, and some a little negative, there was always one thread that stuck out to me: Mothers who called themselves failures because they stay at home and look after their children. Traditional gender norms are ingrained in us, if you’re in a straight relationship. The mums stay at home a

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...

Nowadays, everyone is talking about mental health, yet do they understand what this is? Let’s begin this blog by first understanding what...

Through this whole corona virus-lockdown ‘end of the world’ situation, a few things have kept my mental health afloat: coffee, impromptu...

In these recent months of lockdown, I have felt drawn towards — or, better, hypnotized — by the nature around me. I have surrounded...

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a devastating impact on health, society and the global economy. Worldwide infections are now over...

Cooking without a doubt nourishes your psychological well-being; it soothes the soul and the mind” — Chef Zipora Einav For some people...

One thing that all people (and even some animals) have in common is habits. Bad ones, good ones — our lives are all about changing them,...

1. Make your bed first thing Every morning, make your bed to your own satisfaction, the duvet nice and straight and the pillows plumped. The act of achieving and controlling something as soon as you wake up puts you in the right mood to continue a sense of control throughout your day. You have the power to affect your own thoughts and feelings. Start as you mean to continue — make a promise to yourself to look after your mental health all day long by being as calm as you can

Fish, and particularly fish oil, contains molecules called omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids. Walnuts, soybeans, and flaxseeds are...

Is this #pandemic changing our approach to pollution? And to life? Let me start with an Editor’s Note. We don’t usually start a blog with...

A New year, and a time when publishers traditionally promote January diet books urging self-restraint after the season of merrymaking. While recognising the need for many of us to slim down, I prefer an alternative approach, rooted both in science as well as age-old spirituality. Try eating with your mental health rather than your weight in mind. First, the science. I might never have become interested in the relationship between food and mood had my GP not mentioned the topi

In 2008, Juliet Russell, Diccon Towns and I set up Salon London to get Londoners together with academics, experts, authors and their...

“A Jedi must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind… All his life has he looked away… to the future, to the horizon. Never...

Almost twenty years have passed since the birth of the digital world (Berners Lee 1999). The creation and subsequent rise of the Internet...

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is quite common. It affects about one in 20 children and is three or four times more...

It’s the 20th anniversary of The Matrix, one of the best Kung Fu movies ever. The Matrix. And, in a totally unrelated coincidence,...

Walking on an empty street of London: the illuminated windows, the colours and the shadows are always different. Behind every window...

Not surprisingly (perhaps because we are the Stress , Psychiatry and Immunology Laboratory — the SPI Lab, and this is, by the way, the reason why InSPIre the Mind has the capital SPI) I often gets asked to discuss this topic at public festivals, dissemination events, or online interviews — being these the Wellcome Trust Hub at the Latitude Festival in 2015 , the Wellcome Collection Packed Lunch in 2016, the Also Festival in 2017, the Museum of the Mind in 2019 , or an interv