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03Mar

Why Self-Compassion is as Important as Self-Esteem

Rachel Kelly

empathy, family, love, wellbeing

Mind

My eleven-year-old daughter was complaining about her friend Mary. ‘She’s keeps boasting about her new school,’ she confided, looking despondent. ‘It’s got the most amazing netball courts and clubs for everything...and she’s got much nicer clothes than me...' As she began to sob, spouting a familiar litany about how her life was so much worse than Mary’s, I thought of Kristen Neff. She’s an American academic from Houston, who has put numbers to what I’ve long suspected as the mother of two daughters: the competition game starts young, and girls in particular...
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21Feb

Iraqi Food I Grew up With is Today's Food Fad

Muna Fadhil

culture, family, nutrition

Body

Digestive health is today's big food fad. People today are discovering food allergies they were not aware of; that some foods make you young and others make you age; that changing your job, partner or lifestyle would have fixed your ailment more efficiently than being loaded up on antibiotics.     This food fashion is all over men’s and women's magazines. Flipping through them at newspaper stalls in London makes me realise that their ground-breaking discoveries are my everyday food habits since I was a child growing up in Iraq. Back then I didn't once stop to...
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19Feb

How To Deal with Passive Aggressive Behaviour

Gill Hasson

career, communication, family, friendship, work

Mind

We've all been the victim of passive aggressive behaviour. Here are some tips on how to best communicate with someone behaving in this way.
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09Feb

How to Cope with Infertility

Julia Bueno

couple, family, infertility, men, stress, women

Therapists

Struggling with infertility, some women find they need holistic, therapeutic help as well as medical
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28Jan

Postnatal Depression: What it is and How to Deal With it

Sarah McGuinness

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

Mind

The need-to-know about postnatal depression, a condition which affects many new mothers.
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19Jan

How To Spot Sociopath Women

Jane McGregor

family, friendship, marriage, men, sociopath, women

Mind

What are the key characteristics of sociopaths? Dr Jane McGregor explores
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15Jan

Becoming a Mother

Grace Timothy

family, love, mother, motherhood

Relationships

You are an independent adult, a fully-functioning person with an agenda and expectations and goals. Then you have a baby and everything changes. Suddenly your focus is shifted - from your career, from your relationships, from the personal rituals that have become so integral to your sense of self, whether it’s the commute to work, a long soak in the bath, or something as simple as an uninterrupted wee. It’s a wonderful shift in many ways that negates a lot of your insecurities as this new responsibility consumes you whole. But still most of us are, at one time or...
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06Jan

What you Need to Know About Counselling for Children

Michèle Bartlett

children, counselling, family, parenting, therapy

Mind

The need to know information about counselling for children and child psychotherapy.
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23Dec

How to Have a Harmonious Family Christmas

Linda Blair

Christmas, family

Relationships

We all look forward to Christmas, to the chance to catch up with friends and family, to share good food, to sit beside warm fires, and to enjoy a well-deserved break from our hectic schedules. Often, however, the longed for harmony and bonhomie doesn’t last. The lack of light in December means many of us suffer bouts of low mood, and the demands made on us socially and at work mean that, by the time we get to Christmas itself, we’re feeling tired and grumpy—and often anything but sociable! So how can you rescue this situation? What can you do to ensure that...
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22Dec

5 TIPS FOR DIVORCED AND BLENDED FAMILIES AT CHRISTMAS

Louise Chunn

Christmas, divorce, family, tips

Relationships

Christmas is a notoriously difficult time for families who are no longer living together as a unit. Sometimes children go from one parent’s house to the other on the day; others take it in turns to spend Christmas day with their children; some celebrate on consecutive days with each parent; and there are some who get together for the day, even with new partners and children born post-the breakup. Whatever the way you decide to handle this situation, there is no doubt that it is complicated, and things can go badly wrong. In the run-up to the festive...
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