editor’s letter
If you’re feeling depleted, out of sorts and ready for a holiday, then this issue is for you. Our 18-page Dossier (page 58) on how to renew your strength sets out the tenets of our latest book, Real Strength: Build Your Resilience And Bounce Back From Anything (Capstone, £9.99). Learn the scientifically proven ways to fill up your tank and keep it full, like learning to stop ruminating – the biggest predicator of anxiety and depression – and start developing coping mechanisms. ‘If you can try to imagine your mind as an orchestra, you would go to the past for what worked, and the good stu. you did, to the future with a crystal ball to focus on the outcome you want – without catastrophising about what could go wrong – but be aware that it’s in the present moment that you have control,’ says Liggy Webb, author of Resilience: How To Cope When Everything Around You Keeps Changing (John Wiley & Sons, £12.99).
If you’re hitting the beach but want to revolutionise the way you see yourself, read the moving article by Fiona Cowood on body neutrality (page 46). Do you want to step out of your comfort zone and shake things up? Enjoy ‘My inner big cat’ (page 52) about Lisa Jackson’s shamanic retreat, where she learned how to ‘forge connections with, and listen to, nature and her self’ – and discover her inner jaguar!