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The Therapeutic Power of Poetry: What's the Evidence?

Can poetry help our mental health? In my last piece, I spoke about my personal experiences with poetry, and the life-changing impact it...

The Therapeutic Power of Poetry: My Personal Reflections

Can poetry help our mental health? While I’m convinced of this, so much so that I’ve written a new book on the links between verse and...

How to keep your resolutions this year

How do we make meaningful lifestyle changes that stick and are more than a blink in January’s eye? We know it’s not easy. Studies show...

How words can heal: my journey through depression with the help of poetry

As we adjust to a second lockdown, one musical voice keeps playing in my head: that of Rumi, the thirteenth-century Persian poet and...

TOP TIPS FOR SUSTAINING YOUR MENTAL WELLNESS THROUGH THE CORONA VIRUS

1. Make your bed first thing Every morning, make your bed to your own satisfaction, the duvet nice and straight and the pillows plumped....

Ditch the diets this January, says Rachel Kelly

A New year, and a time when publishers traditionally promote January diet books urging self-restraint after the season of merrymaking....

BEING HAPPY NOT PERFECT

I have spent much of the morning trying to find the right sentence with which to start an article. I am playing with the phrase ‘it is a...

ESCAPING YOUR COMFORT ZONE

A coldish evening and I am back from a class on how to give a presentation, cradling a mug of celebratory hot chocolate. Even the thought...

RELAXING PHYSICALLY

A tense body means a tense mind. Equally, if you are physically relaxed, it is impossible to be anything other than mentally relaxed....