Is 2025 the scariest time to be a girl?

Have you seen anything online that’s made you feel worried?” This is the question Paula*, a leading child psychologist who’d rather not be named, always asks when she first sees children. A few years

Rinsing the dishes, I stood at the sink and laughed as my 12-year-old daughter, Ava, held up her phone. ‘Look at the camera, Mum!’ she grinned before showing me the video she’d just taken using a sill

MIND, BODY, RELATIONSHIPS & MONEY

WE live in a world where social media and online connections are supposed to mean people have more “friends” than ever. But the reality for many is very different, with high levels of loneliness and i

Fitness extraordinaire Kelsey Wells talks to Joanna Ebsworth about the harmful effects of diet culture on social media, the importance of exercising for our emotional wellbeing and how she’s living her best life in her post-Sweat era

As a teenager my life was pretty tumultuous. At 16, I had fallen madly in love with a boy my parents deeply disapproved of, and it was a real tussle for freedom and control. I’d started being naughty