If long breaks aren’t feasible, don’t despair – you can still plot some soul-soothing time out. Health + wellness director Eminé Ali Rushton rounds up the best UK destinations that specialise in short retreats – to help revive you in a long weekend
Lisbon love, by Anita Chaudhuri, who spent a week on a ‘live life as a local’ tour
Ever dreamed of chucking in the 9-to-5 to go and live in your favourite holiday destination? Writer Jennifer Barclay did – here, she tells how she let go of the illusion of safety to discover true happiness
Jane Alexander is drawn to one of the most barren landscapes on earth – and finds in the vast emptiness an unlikely antidote to loneliness
Suzy Greaves discovers if life is better by the sea in the Victorian coastal town of Bournemouth
Psychologies editor Suzy Greaves unplugs from the hectic, modern world to commune with nature – and her family
‘I need to stop making excuses, and just take care of myself,’ says Amerley Ollennu, Psychologies’ beauty and wellbeing editor
