Balance
Wellbeing
Evidence-minded writing on rest, health, and the Nordic approach to a good life.
- Aug 4, 2026 Study after study on loneliness after 60 points to the same finding By Kiran Journals
- Aug 4, 2026 Psychology says people who browse social media but never post or comment often aren't afraid of being disliked By Daniel Moran
- Aug 4, 2026 A Cornell psychologist studied what people regret the most and found the list was dominated not by duties they had… By Daniel Moran
- Aug 4, 2026 People who grew up without hearing the words “I love you” or “I’m proud of you” tend to carry a particular set of… By Kiran Journals
- Aug 4, 2026 Psychology says people who skip every party but still want an invite would rather decline a hundred than receive none By Daniel Moran
- Aug 4, 2026 My dad is 67 and has no close friends, and I finally understood why the day I asked who he'd call if his car broke down… By Daniel Moran
- Aug 4, 2026 Psychology says people who become stubborn and difficult to live with in their 60s and 70s usually aren't hardening for… By Daniel Moran
- Aug 4, 2026 Psychology says people who get annoyed by loud chewing sounds aren't being petty or overly sensitive By Daniel Moran
- Aug 4, 2026 An evening shower is quietly good for your sleep, for a counterintuitive reason By Lachlan Brown
- Aug 4, 2026 A ten-week study of real work teams found that groups with a consistently dissenting member produced more original… By Scandinavia Standard
- Aug 4, 2026 People who stay calm under pressure aren't always unbothered By The Balance
- Aug 4, 2026 Money and happiness are linked, but not the way we assume By Lachlan Brown
- Aug 4, 2026 The strongest sign a person has done real inner work isn't how calmly they speak about their past, it's how little they… By The Balance
- Aug 4, 2026 A programme built in Bergen after three Norwegian teenagers died by suicide in 1982 cut bullying by roughly half among… By Scandinavia Standard
- Aug 4, 2026 A study asked people to send a brief message to someone they had not spoken to in a while and found the recipients… By Lachlan Brown
- Aug 4, 2026 Psychology says the unhappiest people you know are rarely the ones who seem sad By Brendan Brown