Your brain is wired to need order to feel safe, he should respect thatThe question I am mid-40s and married. My husband is good at dealing with life. He never worries, is never insecure, always positive, has unlimited energy and always has a solution for everything. He deals with our kids seemingly without effort, doesn’t set many rules and never worries...

Your first husband robbed you of a lot, and you have some mourning to do. But there seems to be a part of you that thinks you don’t deserve happiness• Every week Annalisa Barbieri addresses a family-related problem sent in by a readerI met my ex in our last year of high school. After a year of university we married when we were only 18. The first 10...

Mindfulness is said to help everything from anxiety to overeating. But how does it work? Experts separate fact from fiction FALSE “Mindfulness is the opposite of ‘emptying the mind’; it is fully immersing the mind in precisely what you are doing,” says neuroscientist TJ Power. “If you were eating a banana mindfully, 100% of your awareness would be focused...

In her fortnightly review of fitness and wellbeing activities, comedian Jennifer Wong comes for a session of gentle meditative yoga – and stays for the crystal singing bowlsGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailThe Sydney gym I arrive at describes a sound bath as a practice that “offers you space to nap without guilt”. Despite already being one...

Men with obesity offered incentives and sent healthy-eating tips in Game of Stones trial found to have lost most weightFinancial incentives of up to £400 alongside text messages could encourage men living with obesity to lose weight, research has found.The research, known as Game of Stones and presented at the European Congress of Obesity, involved...

I needed to send back a projector, but the parcel firm threatened to destroy it because it said the battery made it dangerousCan you help with a bizarre situation I find myself in? I bought a projector online, but it was not suitable so I sent it back. The parcel firm UPS had delivered it, so it seemed sensible to get UPS to return it. How wrong I was.I...