Sauna has been used for thousands of years in Finland and the experience in the world's happiest country is very different from the usual dry hot box us Brits usually find in our local leisure club. There are some key differences when it comes to an authentic Finnish sauna experience and probably the biggest one is the production of the hot evaporating steam which Finnish people call call ‘Löyly’ (pronounced Low-Lou). It’s produced by pouring water onto the hot stones of the sauna heater (kiuas).

“His condition means his muscles are extremely weak and he will never be able to stand or walk and has therefore been reliant on manual and powered wheelchairs from the age of two,” explains his mother Liz. In early 2018, the family decided it was time to replace George’s powerchair as he needed a model with additional features. They attended several exhibitions to see what was available and George tried a handful of different chairs.

Chris was born with spinal muscular atrophy. Over the years, the Gordon family has had various wheelchair accessible vehicles to enable them to go out as a family but as more and more of his friends passed their driving tests Chris wanted to do the same so started to look at drive-from vehicles. “When you are younger, you don’t mind relying on friends and family to give you lifts but just because I am in a powerchair doesn’t mean I shouldn’t have the same independence as everyone else,” explained Chris.

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), though not without controversies, remains the most widely available, accessible and durable mutual aid recovery programme in the world. Though there is little research published on the neurobiology of recovery, existing research literature focusing on ‘active ingredients’, there is a vast body on the the neurochemistry of addiction that has lent credence to the ‘Disease Model’ concept.