Start as you mean to go on

There are over nine million people in England with a long-term disability or illness; that’s almost one in five people or 17.6% of the population. However, participation among disabled people in runni

MY LIFE IN HEALTH

Explorer, writer and photographer Levison Wood talks to Psychology Now group editor Sarah Bankes about the benefits of adversity, and the importance of stepping out of your comfort zone

We suspect you know where you were, half a decade ago this spring, when then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the country to ‘stay home, protect the NHS, save lives’. But as research paints an increasingly detailed picture of the ways in which those years shaped everything from our health habits to our identities, academics are asking a different question: who were you back then? And who are you now?

When life, inevitably, gets stressful, could what we eat help to keep our cortisol levels in check?

The majority of back pain resists any sort of treatment or diagnosis because it’s an emotional pain, says Dr John Sarno. Cate Montana investigates