Balance
Wellbeing
Evidence-minded writing on rest, health, and the Nordic approach to a good life.
- Aug 7, 2026 Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard argued that the most common form of despair is the kind nobody notices, least of… By Mal James
- Aug 7, 2026 Across a British cohort tracked since 1946, the parenting pattern that predicted lower wellbeing decades later was… By Scandinavia Standard
- Aug 7, 2026 A Norwegian study followed children from age 10 to 14 and found that liking and commenting on other people's posts… By Scandinavia Standard
- Aug 7, 2026 Scandinavian culture has an unspoken rule against acting like you're better than anyone else, and the psychological… By Nato Lagidze
- Aug 7, 2026 Psychology says people who prefer being alone aren’t necessarily antisocial or cold By Lachlan Brown
- Aug 6, 2026 Norwegians have a word for treating time outdoors as something closer to a psychological requirement than a leisure… By Nato Lagidze
- Aug 6, 2026 Yale researchers tracked 3,635 adults over 12 years and found that reading books By Lachlan Brown
- Aug 6, 2026 Being the funny one in the family often starts as a way to defuse tension, and it can take decades before that person… By The Balance
- Aug 6, 2026 Oxford researchers surveyed 150,000 people across 142 countries and found that sharing meals is as strong a predictor… By Lachlan Brown
- Aug 6, 2026 Psychology says people who seem calm during every crisis aren’t always emotionally strong By Lachlan Brown
- Aug 6, 2026 I thought retirement would finally give me freedom, but three months in I discovered something I hadn't expected By Jeanette Brown
- Aug 6, 2026 Quote of the day by Carl Jung: "Where love rules, there is no will to power By Mal James
- Aug 6, 2026 How did a country keep homelessness near 0.08 per cent By Mal James
- Aug 5, 2026 Psychology suggests people who are nice on the surface but have no close friends often perfected the nice long before… By Daniel Moran
- Aug 5, 2026 The advice nobody packages as advice By Nato Lagidze
- Aug 5, 2026 I spent a year in New York before I understood why nobody smiles at you on the subway, but everybody will still help… By Daniel Moran