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How to change your habits

  • Arwa Mahdawi in her apartment in New York

    Antisocial media: why I decided to cut back on Facebook and Instagram

    Only when I tried to quit social networks did I realise how addictive and enveloping they are designed to be. Now I am convinced we are heading for a public health crisis
  • Michele Hanson with some root vegetables

    ‘I feel less stuffed after dinners – and less guilty’: why I stopped eating meat

    My journey towards vegetarianism started 30 years ago for practical reasons, but the more I eschew animal products the better I feel about everything
  • Fay Schopen, who is moderating her alcohol intake

    Glass half empty: the hangover from hell that made me tackle my drinking

    Alcohol doesn’t have to affect your life dramatically to be problematic. When I realised I had missed the same event two years in a row because I was suffering after a heavy night, I knew I had to change
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    From quitting smoking to getting out of debt: Guardian readers on the resolutions they kept this year

    Ros feels fitter than ever at 71. Julia has found happiness. We asked readers how they ditched their bad habits and formed good ones – here are their inspiring stories
  • Phil Daoust running in a park in south London

    ‘There is a thrill to seeing your stomach getting flatter’: why I run

    Since I started trudging up hills and around parks four years ago, I have become healthier, slimmer and sunnier – and sometimes I even enjoy it
  • New Year resolutions

    The experts’ guide to making – and keeping – your New Year resolutions

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    ‘Anyone can change any habit’: the science of keeping your 2018 resolutions

  • ‘If you are a catastrophiser and you would rather not be, how do you go about making changes?’

    How to stop catastrophising – an expert’s guide

  • ‘Compassion is the most powerful weapon against anxiety’ ... Chitra Ramaswamy with her daughter.

    How the hardest year of my life ended my catastrophic thinking

  • Maurice McLeod

    The joy and relief of saying no: how I learned to stop worrying and turn people down

    At first, saying yes to everything was a boon to my social life and my career. Then my workload started to get out of hand and I became racked with guilt
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