I HAVE QUITE a good sixth sense when I meet athletes for the first time and usually gauge within a short conversation their character. Charlie has a self-effacing characteristic that has dealt...

MANY PEOPLE STRUGGLE with sleep – with or without the extra stresses of a pandemic and lockdown – finding they stay up way past 10 pm, then unable to fall or stay asleep. In the last couple of...

THE SUPER-A JOURNEY has been an exciting time for me. Last year I looked into ways to take the strain off my personal finances and started to look for an ‘angel investor’: a person who had the...

QUIT SMOKING. LOSE WEIGHT.  BE A NICER PERSON.  These are the general clichés people talk about in January when they’re thinking about setting New Year Resolutions. For most of us, it’s a...

HMP LONG LARTIN is a category ‘A’ prison that holds more than 500 male prisoners, including some of the country's most dangerous offenders. There have been two murders at the prison since 2014. ...

ON A RARE NIGHT out with an old friend (male), and after a couple of beers, he talked about his on-line dating, and what he thinks of ‘women of a certain age’, ie peri-meno’ or menopausal. Harry:...

I’M NEITHER A PSYCHOLOGIST nor a psychotherapist, but I do know that COVID 19 is increasing people’s alienation from themselves. While I’m not qualified the write about the myriad of issues that...

WAKING UP TO those bright sunny mornings of last summer feel like a distant memory now, and we’re lucky if we get home from work before sunset (if we’re lucky enough to go to work!).   For most...

IT IS THOUGHT that negative thinking is linked to the risk of developing dementia – so here is how to break the cycle of decline. Just how you think could be having an impact on your mental...

The former England cricket captain is appearing in a documentary about the eating disorder. EIGHT YEARS ON from speaking publicly about his experience with bulimia, former England cricket captain...