Psychology 5 - 2024

Find your focus again

47 seconds, that's how long we can concentrate on average. Because oh that phone... What we can do to combat the 'attention crisis'.

And further in this issue, including:

• Psychologist and writer Kelly Weekers chooses her own path. She wanted to please everyone, but she got ahead of herself.
• Tips from sex expert Emily Nagoski for a lifetime of great sex.
• Can I have some water? They can moan, count, learn, call for help: plants are more like us than we think.
• Eric Boers lost his two children to the same disease. "I clung to the pain."
• Toolkit: recognize your hunger. There are no fewer than seven types of hunger. Recognize them all and learn to eat mindfully (and less).
• I may be there. These women overcame their shame and showed who they are – in all their vulnerability.