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Health & fitness
The one change that worked: meditation cured my insomnia – and transformed my relationships | Meditation
In the run-up to Christmas 2018, wobbly with delirium on a station platform packed with partygoers, I nearly fell under a train. Insomnia – not…
Is it true that … cold water plunges boost immunity? | Health & wellbeing
‘It’s a long-held belief that taking to the waters is good for your health,” says Mike Tipton, a professor of human and applied physiology at…
The kindness of strangers: a woman I’d never met heard we had flu and dropped a big pot of soup at our doorstep | Life and style
It was 1996 when my husband was transferred to the small rural town of Healesville for work. In inner-city Melbourne, where we’d been living, we…
Meet the members of the Dull Men’s Club: ‘Some of them would bore the ears off you’ | Health & wellbeing
The 18th-century English writer Samuel Johnson once wrote, “He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others’. It’s a sentiment…
Are school and college reunions good for us? | Life and style
Are school and college reunions good for us? Or do they just confront us with uncomfortable past versions of ourselves and others, keeping us trapped…
Switch on those glutes! Suddenly it’s all about the bass, and for good reason | Fitness
I’m staring at the screen, trying to write a joke. It involves a muscle called the gluteus maximus, Roman centurions and possibly a reference to…
What about fitness tips for those of us aged 90 and above? | Fitness
Hannah Coates’ article (From strength training in your 20s to yoga in your 80s: how to reach peak fitness at any age, 31 May) covered…
Therapy isn’t about life hacks. The best solutions are simpler – and more complex | Mental health
When people seek therapy – and I know this, because I too was once a person seeking therapy – we often want strategies, techniques and…