Calm shop

Calm shop

Prints, and other small things worth keeping close. Support this project Small things to bring a little of that quiet into your home, not just your screen. The shop isn’t the point of the site, but it’s grown out of it naturally – prints of the...
Insight Timer reviewed

Insight Timer reviewed

Insight Timer’s own figures: claimed usage share against its biggest competitors, and where the free tier gives way to Plus. Insight Timer came up in the NSDR post as the app with the deepest library of sessions under that name, which made it worth a proper look...
NSDR, unpacked

NSDR, unpacked

A closer look at NSDR, the calming practice behind the popular new name, and the rest it genuinely offers. NSDR – Non-Sleep Deep Rest – is becoming an increasingly popular term, turning up in podcasts, on fitness trackers, and across meditation apps such as Insight...
The age of de-diagnosis

The age of de-diagnosis

Photo: Sami Timimi A new interview in The Times profiles Dr Sami Timimi, a former NHS child psychiatrist, and a small but growing group of clinicians asking whether the current age of diagnosis has gone too far. Their proposed answer isn’t a new label....
I’m fine but not really

I’m fine but not really

A new interview with the psychotherapist Dr Peter Meades – built around his book I’m Fine (But Not Really): What Men Need to Know, Without Going to Therapy – sets out a case this site keeps returning to from a different angle: the practices that help...