Take some time for yourself with soothing classical music from the mindful mix, the Science of

Happiness Podcast.

For the last 20 years I've dedicated my career to exploring the science of living a happier more meaningful life and I want

to share that science with you.

And just one thing, deep calm with Michael Mosley.

I want to help you tap in to your hidden relaxation response system and open the door to that

calmer place within. Listen on BBC Sounds.

I'm packing in all this BBC presenting and going out on the road. Find out why.

Hello, even if we keep the embroidered sentiment to ourselves, it's all too easy to feel as we return

from our adventurous summer holidays that home is where the heart is, that well

East West, homes best. Now perhaps what makes this sentiment difficult to express is our nagging

sense that home is also a place that insulates us from the real world that narrows our

horizons, inhibits our imagination.

I mean, didn't we all have an adolescent moment when we stormed down the hallway, slammed the

front door behind us and strode off down the street, or perhaps took a gentlerler more surreptitious route to

existential freedom.

Wednesday morning at five o'clock as the day begins.

Silently closing her bedroom door,

leaving the note that she hoped would say more.

She goes downstairs to the kitchen clutching her handkerchief. Oh, but after leaving home, after leaving home, how much of that new-found freedom might

we bear could we ever really embrace true homelessness?

What would life be like without any connection to family and roots?

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