Health and Wellbeing

Books that got me through my dark night

Reading can get your though the tough times in life, says Sam Baker, including menopause.

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Skin hunger: Understanding the need to be touched

Lynn Ruth Miller has a satisfying life. She just needs to be touched.

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Can I stop being resilient now please?

Children, parents, careers and homes — the stuff of midlife comes with one hell of a to-do list and a mandate to just keep going. Must we handle it all?

My mad life: Caring for an autistic teenager

Midlife for Sarah Shackleton revolves around the needs of her autistic son

Learning to run saved my life

After recovering from brain surgery, Rosie Millard ran the London Marathon in less than 4 hours

How my husband fell apart during lockdown

Amanda Easter suffers the side-effects of the pandemic

Cold water swimming cured my panic attacks

Breathing, immersion in freezing lakes and comraderie helped Sharing Miranda Bailey heal herself

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Coming to Britain let us reinvent what a woman could be

Our lives in the UK are now unrecognisable to those of our mothers says Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

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I gave up on IVF and became a stepmother instead

Elizabeth Kesses reveals why she chose not to have a baby, but how stepmotherhood changed her

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I had sex every day for 2 weeks - it changed me forever

Quantity, or quality? Daisy Buchanan takes one for the team...

I'm so glad lockdown is over - it nearly broke me

Staying home with your nearest and dearest may have turbo-charged some relationships, but for me it’s pushed the limits

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I lost the job I'd had for 23 years. My world fell apart but now I am glad

Losing her job left Noon editor Eleanor Mills at sea. But then she discovered something new

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