Burnout or Depression? How to Tell the Difference When You're Still Functioning
Burnout clusters around work; depression colours everything. A careful look at the difference, the overlap, and when 'coping' stops being the right word.
Presenteeism: The Burnout Cost Hiding in Perfect Attendance
Burnout statistics used to count the people who stopped showing up. This year they started counting the people who didn't. On perfect attendance, presenteeism, and the ledger you aren't keeping.
Allostatic Load: The Running Tab Your Body Keeps on Chronic Stress
No single bad day does it; the tab just quietly runs up. Allostatic load is the science of how chronic stress accumulates in the body, and how to pay it down.
Asteya: The Yoga of Not Taking What Isn't Offered
You'd never take a colleague's wallet, but their Tuesday afternoon is another matter. Asteya, yoga's third yama, is non-stealing practised on time, attention and energy.
Adult Friendship Is a Practice: Why Seeing Your People Is a Health Behaviour
Friendship is one of the strongest predictors of long-term health, and in adult life it survives on practice: small, regular, scheduled contact. On standing arrangements, sangha, and keeping your people.
Santosha: Yoga's Case for Contentment in an Over-Optimised Age
The wellness industry has discovered you can't optimise your way to peace. Yoga has had a word for the alternative for two thousand years.
Cold Water Therapy for Burnout: What Ice Baths Can and Can't Do
The cold plunge has become wellness's favourite hard thing. What the evidence actually supports, what it doesn't, and why a wired nervous system might want to skip the queue.
The Hobby With No Finish Line: Why Doing Something Badly Is Good for You
Somewhere along the line, leisure absorbed the logic of work. The case for keeping one game in your life that doesn't count.
Nervous System Regulation Is Suddenly Everywhere. Here's What the Trend Gets Wrong
Regulation has become the wellness word of 2026, and most of what travels under it means 'calm down'. A practitioner's look at what the trend flattens: direction, dose, and state.
The Eighteen-Month Delay: Why High Performers Are the Last to Know They're Burnt Out
The better you are at your job, the longer burnout gets to hide. New counselling data puts the detection delay at around eighteen months. How to spot it sooner.
Wabi-Sabi as a Way of Life: The Zen Practice Behind the Aesthetic
Wabi-sabi has been flattened into an interiors trend. It began as something better: a Zen way of loving imperfect things, imperfect bodies and unfinished days.
Micro-Recovery for Burnout: Why Little and Often Beats the Weekend
Recovery answers to frequency more than volume. Why a handful of two-minute pauses does more for a stressed nervous system than the weekend lie-in ever manages.