Blue Monday 2026: Health and wellbeing experts share 19 little things that make them happy

From a pharmacist to a high-performance coach, GP and breathwork teacher, Gemma Fullam asks 19 people to share how they find happiness in their everyday
Blue Monday 2026: Health and wellbeing experts share 19 little things that make them happy

From a cup of coffee to cold plunges, here's how 19 people find pockets of happiness in their everyday

Six weeks before Christmas 2021, I bought a giant glitterball. Something compelled me to shell out a grand (yes, you read that right!) on a supersized ball of sparkle. Too heavy to hang, it disco-dazzled a corner of my sitting room for three years until I finally twigged.

The universe was sending me a message: Find. Some. Joy. (To ram it home, the woman who’d sold me the ball was named Joy.)

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