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29Apr

Wellcome Book Prize Winner 2015: The Iceberg by Marion Coutts

Alice McGurran

books, culture, family, Wellcomebookprize

Soul

Marion Coutts was tonight awarded the Wellcome Book Prize 2015 for The Iceberg, published by Atlantic Books. Welldoing attended the special announcement ceremony held in the Wellcome Collection's new Reading Room.
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26Apr

How Being Closer to Death is Good for Us

Alice McGurran

care, death, family, mortality, society

Soul

Mortician Caitlin Doughty spoke to Claudia Hammond at the recent Barbican Open Salon event, in association with Canongate books. Here is what she has to say about constantly evolving death culture in our society.
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23Apr

Wellcome Book Prize 2015: Bodies of Light by Sarah Moss

Alice McGurran

books, culture, family

Soul

The Wellcome Book Prize is an annual award, open to works of fiction and non-fiction which to be eligible must have a theme which focuses on health, illness or medicine. The last of our reviews of the shortlisted texts looks at Bodies of Light by Sarah Moss. The winner will be announced next week.
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11Apr

Wellcome Book Prize 2015: All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews

Camilla Nicholls

books, culture, depression, family, suicide

Soul

The desperate, loving tussle between two sisters draws the reader into a debate about a person’s right to die and the case for assisted suicide. All my Puny Sorrows is by Canadian author Miriam Toews, whose own father committed suicide. It is shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2015.
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09Apr

Why My Mum's Dementia Affects Us All

Leanne Brookes

care, dementia, family

Mind

Young singer-songwriter and mental health blogger Leanne Brookes on the distress and difficulty of having a mother with early on-set Alzheimer's disease.
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01Apr

How Well Do you Know your Family?

Jean Paul

family, home, love, wellbeing

Relationships

How often do you talk to your relatives? I mean, REALLY talk to them? Jean-Paul Flintoff, member of the faculty of The School of Life, offers advice on how to get to know your family better.
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23Mar

Perinatal and Postnatal Depression

Emma Haynes

counselling, depression, family, PND, postnataldepression, therapy, women

Mind

Perinatal and postnatal depression - why it is so important that new mothers feel able to talk about this problem.
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16Mar

Being an Adult Child of Divorce

Sue Cowan-Jenssen

counselling, divorce, family, loneliness, stress, therapy

Therapists

What's it like when your parents divorce when you yourself are grown up and out of the house?
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13Mar

Celebrating Mother's Day When you Don't Get Along with your Mum

Kate Merrick

childhood, family, mother, mothersday

Relationships

If your biological mother doesn't quite fit the bill, why not start with yourself this Mother's Day?
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12Mar

Caring for Someone with Dementia

June Andrews

dementia, elderly, family, home, love

Mind

Having dementia is very worrying. The stress leads to upsetting behaviour, and that is the sort of thing that people find hard to deal with at home. All of them will be solved more easily if there is a relaxed atmosphere at home. If someone is shouting, repeating themselves, refusing to eat, staying cool and tranquil would be a miracle.  So the secret is to put as much in place as possible to keep a stress-free background environment. This means avoiding over-stimulation - and everyone has different things that they find stimulating, so you have to decide for...
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