And then, on the 26th of March 2020, the first COVID lockdown began. And so, after months of prison lockdown, I realised I’d stopped being irritated.

that we can only focus on what is within our control and that a Stoic must live in accordance with nature (which doesn’t mean walking naked through nature by the way). Simply, it means to be in harmony with human nature and to have a responsibility towards our communities

recent years, a growing body of literature has begun to uncover how alcohol can turn on our body’s natural As a result, we tend to experience chronic, low-grade inflammation that naturally increases as we age alcohol into the mix can further exacerbate the dysregulated immune function that is already occurring naturally

Winter worry-land As a natural over-thinker, worry and uncertainty caused by the pandemic has at times I am not however a naturally ‘creative’ person and I haven’t really progressed much since the kitchen I don’t know about you, but I reached my Zoom-quiz capacity during the first lockdown, so this sounds

limbic system, widely thought to be important for emotion and motivation, for example, have already matured be in the midst of the slow myelination process, and the discrepancy between regions that have not matured Negative emotions can be challenging without matured frontal lobes to help regulate them. Health Organisation report showed adolescents reported more mental health concerns during the Covid-19 lockdowns The brain retains information more effectively as it matures, meaning that teenagers are allowed temporary

I’d never thought much of it, until I had my son, right at the beginning of lockdown, in April 2020.

When lockdown was lifted, I noticed patterns in how many of us dealt with social interaction (more on The term seemed to start generating more attention after lockdown — presumably as more of us could relate

This came naturally to me. I was able to share the poems which had got me through my depression. Given this enthusiasm, I was naturally keen to review the literature on the power of poetry.

Then came the pandemic and lockdowns. Under lockdown, I met with someone over the phone, and I discovered I felt safer with the visual anonymity

It's about the beauty of wild nature, the way apparently small matters can have a significant impact Through lockdown, she’s on her own. No bubble, just her. She watches the leaves fall. It’s just after lockdown, when people are starting to do things. She hovers outside.

While their initial goal was to simplify the complexities of the human psyche, the binary nature of the Sharing a four-letter code often feels far simpler than grappling with the complex and fluid nature of focus often stays on positive traits, glossing over more complex or less flattering aspects of human nature

current situation is a challenge for everyone, and there is clear emerging evidence that for some babies lockdown