Grounding Techniques: 10 Ways to Calm Anxiety Fast (Including 5-4-3-2-1)
Grounding techniques are quick exercises that pull your attention out of anxious thoughts and back into the present moment through your senses and body.
Box Breathing: How to Do It for Anxiety, Stress and Sleep
Box breathing is a simple technique: breathe in for 4 seconds, hold for 4, breathe out for 4, hold for 4, and repeat for a few minutes.
Best Tea for Sleep: 7 Herbal Teas Ranked by Evidence (UK)
The best teas for sleep are caffeine-free herbal teas such as chamomile, passionflower, valerian, lemon balm and lavender. Chamomile has the most research, linked to better sleep quality. Passionflower and valerian have smaller studies.
Morning Anxiety: Why You Wake Up Anxious and How to Stop It
Morning anxiety is waking up with a racing heart, dread or a busy mind before the day has even started. It’s common.
Hangover Cure: What Actually Works (and What Doesn’t)
There’s no proven hangover cure. Time is the only thing that clears one. What helps most is rehydrating with water or an isotonic drink, eating something bland, resting, and taking paracetamol for a headache rather than aspirin.
Self-Care Ideas: 50 Simple Ideas for Every Day (and a Weekly Plan)
Self-care means small, regular things that look after your body and mind. Good self-care ideas include a morning walk in daylight, an early night, a phone-free evening, a warm bath, cooking a proper meal, calling a friend, journaling…
Stress Symptoms: Physical, Mental and Behavioural Signs of Stress (UK)
Stress symptoms can affect your body, mind and behaviour. Physical signs include headaches, dizziness, tense or painful muscles, stomach problems, a racing heart and poor sleep. Mentally you may feel overwhelmed, worried, forgetful or unable to concentrate.
Why Am I So Tired in Winter? Causes and 10 Ways to Boost Energy (UK)
Feeling more tired in winter is common. Less daylight shifts your body clock and keeps the sleep hormone melatonin higher for longer, you move less, and colds and dark mornings disrupt sleep.
Gifts for Anxiety: Calming Gift Ideas for Her and Him (UK)
The best gifts for someone with anxiety are calming, practical and pressure-free: a weighted blanket, a cosy evening drink, a massage balm, an eye mask, a journal, noise-cancelling headphones or an experience you do together.
How to Stop a Panic Attack: Fast Steps, Symptoms and Prevention (UK)
To stop a panic attack, stay where you are, breathe slowly in through your nose and out through your mouth with a longer out-breath, and remind yourself it will pass.
Stress Awareness Week 2026: Dates, a 5-Day Plan and Ideas for Work
Stress Awareness Week runs in the first week of November, with International Stress Awareness Day on Wednesday 4 November 2026. It’s organised by the International Stress Management Association to raise awareness of stress and how to manage it.
Anxiety Symptoms: Physical and Mental Signs in Women and Men (UK)
Anxiety symptoms can be mental and physical. The main one is worry that’s hard to control. Physical signs include a racing or pounding heart, feeling tense, trouble sleeping, tiredness, stomach problems, dizziness, sweating, shaking and shortness of breath.