Four Seconds In, Two Held, Six Out: What a New Review of 1,249 People Reveals About Breathing Your Way Past a Craving

A Singular Point of View If you have ever stood in the kitchen at half past nine with a craving pulling at you like a hand on your sleeve, and reached for a breath instead of the thing you actually wanted, this one is for you. Picture your own chest right now, rising and falling […]

No Single Right Box: What a Landmark Trial of 316 Children Reveals About Treating Anxiety

A Singular Point of View If you are holding a referral letter for your child right now, wondering whether to tick the box for talking therapy or the box for medication, this one is for you. Picture two doors at the end of a corridor, both closed, both unmarked, and you standing in front of […]

The Body You Think You Feel: What a New Study of 456 People Reveals About Bodily Awareness and Mental Health

A Singular Point of View For twenty years, researchers have suspected that our inner bodily sense is where mental health quietly goes wrong. A large new study has now measured that sense properly in hundreds of people — and found something almost nobody expected. The body is always talking. A heart quickening on the stairs. […]

The Machine That Listens: What a New Study Reveals About AI Chatbots, Therapy and the Limits of a Kind Voice

A Singular Point of View There is an old comfort in being heard. Long before there were clinics or waiting lists, people carried their troubles to whoever would sit still and listen — a friend at a kitchen table, a stranger on a long train journey, the quiet ear of someone who asked for nothing […]

The Fear Beneath the Calm: What a New Analysis of 1,258 Patients Reveals About the Safety of Mindfulness

A Singular Point of View For years a quiet doubt has trailed behind mindfulness — the worry that turning inward might, for some, make the darkness worse. A major new analysis of more than a thousand patients has now looked that fear squarely in the eye, and its answer is a steadying one. There is […]