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24Aug

8 Tips to Help Your Anxious Child

Poppy O'Neill

anxiety, child, children, family, fatherhood, motherhood, parenthood, parenting, parents, tips

Relationships

Anxiety can be particularly difficult for children to manage, especially if they are too young to be able to communicate their feelings to you. Poppy O'Neill, author of 101 Tips For Your Anxious Child, offers 8 practical ways you can support your child in managing anxious feelings.
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02Jul

How We Coped With Our Teenage Daughter's Anorexia

Mark Simmonds

anorexia, children, eatingdisorders, family, fatherhood, parenthood, parenting, teenagers

Mind

Mark Simmonds shares how he and his wife supported their daughter Emily, who lived with anorexia as a teenager. Family therapy gave Mark and his wife helpful tools to ensure their own behaviour gave Emily the best possible chance of recovery.
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11Jun

Deepening Our Connections During the Pandemic

Dora Darvasi

coronavirus, family, relationships, self, society

Therapists

Though lockdown is in many ways a shared experience, we all continue to have diverse experiences depending on our personal situations. Therapist Dora Darvasi looks at how we can deepen our understanding of ourselves and those around us at this time.
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29Apr

How to Write Your Family History

Gareth St John Thomas

family, identity, self

Relationships

How much do we really know about the lives of our parents and grandparents? Gareth St John Thomas outlines how you can get started with writing your family history.
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26Apr

Parenting in Lockdown: Managing Changing Roles, Responsibilities and Emotions

Annie Broadbent

coronavirus, family, home, parenthood, parenting

Therapists

Therapist Annie Broadbent explores why co-parenting in lockdown might bring up such difficult feelings and how parents can adapt to working more closely together than ever before.
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21Mar

Why Are Mother-Daughter Relationships So Complex?

Holli Rubin

family, motherhood, mothers, mothersday, parenthood

Therapists

Mother-daughter relationships are known for being fraught with complications. Therapist Holli Rubin, who offers specialist mother-daughter 'couples' therapy, explores why this is
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20Mar

Mothers, Stepmothers, and Stepfamily Dynamics

Claire Asherson Bartram

family, motherhood, mothersday, women

Therapists

Stepfamilies can be a complicated coming together of different groups, requiring the managing of new and old relationships side by side. Claire Asherson Bartram, a therapist in NW London, shares her insights from her research into mothers in stepfamilies
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23Jan

The Story of You and Me: Helping Families Make Memories

Amy Lord

creativity, family, relationships, wellbeing

Soul

Amy Lord's project encourages families and friends to spend time together, engaging in a creative project to honour significant memories
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20Dec

Understanding and Managing Family Issues

Joshua Miles

family, identity, self

Therapists

Therapist Joshua Miles explores the joy and pain of family, and why family dynamics and difficulties affect us individually
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25Nov

What I've Learned About Young People as A School Counsellor

Debbie Foers

education, family, parenting, school, society, teenagers, youth

Therapists

School counsellor and welldoing.org therapist Debbie Foers shares what she has learned about the difficulties facing young people today
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