by calm_2jqtsj | Sep 20, 2026 | Journal, Wellness watch
Meditation is sold as close to risk-free. One researcher’s twenty-year study found otherwise. Meditation apps promise calm with no downside. The psychologist who logged nearly 20,000 hours of it found a different story – including inside her own head. Willoughby...
by calm_2jqtsj | Sep 11, 2026 | Journal, Wellness watch
On Your Side, and England rugby captain Zoe Stratford OBE — one of the athletes backing its launch. The Prince of Wales visited Everton Football Club’s stadium on Thursday, World Suicide Prevention Day, to launch a new toolkit called On Your Side – the first...
by calm_2jqtsj | Aug 25, 2026 | Book reviews, Journal
The chair still waiting for someone who won’t be back. Professor Tanya Byron: “This is not depression. This is grief.” A clinical psychologist spent three decades teaching other people to tell the difference between pain and pathology. When her own...
by calm_2jqtsj | Aug 24, 2026 | Book reviews, Journal
Sir Norman Lamb: “We owe it to all of them to change.” Photo: UK Parliament (CC BY 3.0) Sir Norman Lamb was the minister in charge of England’s mental health policy. But it wasn’t a briefing paper that shaped his thinking most — it was his...
by calm_2jqtsj | Aug 18, 2026 | Journal, Wellness watch
Two thousand years old, held up to modern scrutiny… A Big Think interview with philosopher Massimo Pigliucci has been doing the rounds, making the case that Stoicism isn’t just an ancient curiosity but a philosophy with real evidence behind it. The claim is more...
