by Wilma Delgadillo | 18-Dec-10 | Mind
Harmonies in the boom of a gong are transporting busy brains into a meditative state Leo Cosendai used to be an acutely anxious young man. “I couldn’t cope with taking the train,” he says. “I never felt safe.” So when he moved to London from Switzerland in 2008 to...
by Hope Kennedy | 18-Nov-28 | Mind
Opening up to past trauma is difficult, but self-awareness is key to addressing issues that leave us vulnerable What’s your poison, people sometimes ask, but Gabor Maté doesn’t want to ask what my poison is, he wants to ask how it makes me feel. Whatever it is I’m...
by Jesus Pinero | 18-Nov-25 | Mind
In seven years the Australian-born chain claims to have trained more than 1 million people worldwide. What’s the appeal? I’m in a heavily air-conditioned studio in Surry Hills, somewhere above a line of wholesale fast fashion outlets, with some 16 other people who...
by Mollie Blackmore | 18-Nov-06 | Mind
The shudder of sexual electricity can be celebrated without being consummated, says Mariella Frostrup The dilemma I am 40, gay and happily married. I have great friends and a good job. A year ago I met someone through some friends. Nothing happened, we just went out...
by Judith Kennedy | 18-Oct-28 | Mind
At this vital community space in Govan, locals are mucking in for the good of everyone’s health Look at Wee Jackie go. Four-foot-nine, 43 years old, gabbing nonstop, grafting nonstop, her full name – Jacqueline – tattooed on the back of her neck, she shoves that...
by Jacqueline Mudge | 18-Oct-28 | Mind
It’s important to offer your mother a sympathetic haven from your father’s apocalyptic ideas, counsels Mariella Frostrup The dilemma My father believes the world is going to end. He’s bought a house in the most isolated part of Ireland he could find, without...
