Mental Health
Eleanor's Letter: A review of my week at a top UK silent retreat
NOON founder Eleanor Mills experiences and reviews Sharpham Hall, one of the top silent retreats in the UK
The key to a fulfilling midlife career – mastering your dance with fear and confidence
We know mid-life is a uniquely challenging time, but it’s also a key pivotal time. The choices you make now really matter. Author and careers coach, Laura Walker, shares insights from her award-winning research and what you can do to help yourself master the next steps.
“I realised therapy was less of a challenge than navigating your way towards it.”
Her own experience of traumatic mental breakdown in her family and her training in branding and communications then as psychotherapist has led Maryam Meddin to pioneer a new approach to mental health.
'I was living for everyone else but myself'
A straightforward question turned into the crash-and-burn moment that made Claire Pestana realise what was missing from her life: herself.
Welcome to the parent grief club
When Kerensa Jennings’ beloved mum died, she became a member of a club she never knew existed or wanted to join, and was left wondering why more people don’t talk about the special searing grief of losing a parent.
How Parents Can Support Their Child Through an Eating Disorder
Throughout her late teen years, Megan Ravenhall found herself in the grip of an eating disorder. Though she feels she has still not fully recovered, Megan reflects on how her parents' support led her to ultimately choose life.
How I got to grips with my chronic anxiety
Ilona Bannister suffers from chronic anxiety and agoraphobia, two debilitating conditions. But at times, her greatest struggles have also proven to be strengths
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Love Island, porn and Generation XXX
ITV's Love Island glorifies a culture of sex without feelings. But there is a very dark side to all this and it's time we addressed it writes Eleanor Mills.
'I looked like a success but I was too numb to enjoy anything'
Helen Barnes on how she gave up traditional notions of success, concentrated on her family and discovered the joy of reinventing herself.
How learning to surf at 50-plus changed me
Danielle Cass began surfing age 50 plus and turned from invisible to strong and beautiful
VIDEO: Catherine Mayer on bereavement and re-embracing life
Journalist Catherine Mayer and Anne Mayer Bird, her mother and co-author, discuss the loss of their husbands and bereavement with Eleanor Mills
Catherine Mayer on the physicality of grief
Catherine Mayer’s beloved husband Andy died at the beginning of the pandemic, only weeks after her stepfather. Since then she and her mother have been sharing their bereavement journey together, culminating in writing Good Grief, a book which is searing about loss but optimistic on how to re-embrace life. Here is an edited extract of a brand-new chapter about how grief affects body as well as soul.
