Anyone who’s ever attempted a New Year reset will be familiar with the overwhelming feeling of trying to break well-worn habits and squeeze new activities – whether that’s journalling, practising mind

Marginal gains have long been touted as the path to sporting success and forming habits is key. Luz Wollocombe asks top riders and psychologists how to make game-changing habits that last longer than a New Year’s resolution

If you’ve set resolutions and these fail, you’re not alone. So many people give up by the second Friday of January, it’s known as ‘Quitter’s Day’. What if we scrap them and simply aim to have a…

As parents and caregivers, it is our instinct to protect our children from harm. When they are very small, we teach them what not to touch, we scoop them up before they fall, we hold their hands when they balance on high walls. The instinct to keep our children from feeling hurt never leaves us, so when they are older and come to us with emotional turmoil, it is only natural that our initial urge is to make the bad thing go away. But what if this ref lex is doing more harm than good when it comes to teaching our young people how be become more resilient?

MIND, BODY, RELATIONSHIPS & MONEY

If you can’t stop nibbling and are always thinking about your next meal or snack, your thoughts may be to blame for weight gain. ‘The constant mental chatter around food is called “food noise”,’ says