Meaningful connections are often found in the small, consistent, and thoughtful ways that lift our collective spirits.

What builds connections in life is not speed, but attention.

The aim isn't just happiness or contentment, it's to live a life full of 'variety, novelty, and interest'.

Human connection can transform emotional suffering.

Recently, I've been reading some posts on social media about finding "the right person", which invariably includes a kind of roadmap or formula to set people in the right direction.

Happiness isn't passive – it requires effort, and practice too.

I'm writing this column in a busy café that's surprisingly quiet. Most of us are absorbed in our screens, and the adults are just as fixated as teenagers.

As we navigate life's inevitable tensions and conflicts, within and without, we can learn to examine our assumptions, and to meet others with curiosity and care.

How do we respond to suffering? Do we meet let it harden us, do we meet it with despair, or with compassionate action? The choice is ours.

Separating fact from fiction is essential to our well-being.

Paying mindful attention to emotions could reveal answers we’ve been searching for all along.

Engaging in trial and error can feel like a contradiction to learning when, in reality, they’re at the heart of it.