Mental Strength

Expert guidance, self-help hacks and real-life stories to help you improve your mental wellbeing.

Why letting go of your youth is harder than you think

I TURNED 41 a few weeks ago. Growing older was never something I was afraid of. I used to say, “we’re lucky if we get the chance to.” But if I’m being honest, there is a part of me that is starting to feel unsettled about ageing. And that’s the part that is afraid of...

Manoj Dias on sowing the seeds of softness

An unexpected lesson in masculinity – through gardening

Osher Günsberg on coming to grips with what you can actually control in life

The key to managing your mental health in rocky times could be to look at what you have influence over and what you don’t

A psychologist’s guide to beating dating-app fatigue

FROM WHAT I’M hearing on the ground and reliably matched in research, is that many guys are giving up on dating and finding ‘the one’. Over the past decade we’ve seen a massive shift in the way that dating culture looks, from the NYC meet-cutes of the ’90s to today,...

Are ice baths and saunas overrated?

THESE DAYS YOU can’t scroll far on your insta feed without seeing an eager, usually ripped dude jumping in a tub of frigid water. The ice bath is up there with fasting as the 2020s' most popular health and wellness hack, a practice long popular with elite athletes...

The rise of athlete mental health breaks and what we can learn from them

IF YOU WERE TO go back a few decades, the concept of taking a ‘mental health break’ would be unthinkable. Such was the intensity of the prevailing macho culture of the time, so firmly entrenched were the ideals of ‘toughening up’ and ‘growing a pair’, that even...

Osher Günsberg: how I found freedom from fear of death

DARREN HAYES’ SKULL sits on my desk. Every day, I stare deep into the darkness of the empty eye sockets, my own death unflinchingly staring back at me from darkness. And you know what? It’s one of the best parts of my day. On the 2023 season of The Masked Singer, one...