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Does Mother Really Know Best?
As children, we trust that our mother has our best interests at heart, but is that always the case? Our mother may want to keep us near to her, may have underlying issues that she perhaps is even unaware of herself. After all, she is only human. There can be many factors that influence her behaviour. Let’s look at some of them.
Five Top Tips for a Happy Single Life
For some people having a relationship is everything; they feel less of a person if they don’t have a partner. But sometimes being single is a fact of life; it may not be a choice. For others, being single may be a preferred state after disappointments and let downs. Let’s look at some tips to make it a happier experience. Being single, alone does not have to mean lonely.
Grief and the Bereaved Grandparent
Grandparents are often overlooked when there is the loss of a baby or young child. They often are the ones who are expected to be strong for the rest of the family, whose role is to provide practical and emotional support. And yet, their sense of loss is often equally distressing.
Five Top Tips for Better Communications
We often take our ability to communicate for granted but it is important to consider the information we convey when we are with others. Especially at times of conflict or disagreement there are some tips that can help improve those situations.
Five Top Tips to Manage Stress
Stress features heavily in most of our lives. Even children are found to be stressed about their appearance, their school results, being accepted by others. Here are some ways to help manage the stress in our lives.
Five Top Tips for Better Sex
Sex and intimacy are part of the important bond that grows and evolves over time within a relationship. Closeness and open communications help a couple to become stronger and weather the ups and downs that life often throws at them along the way. Here are some suggestions to help maintain and improve a healthy sexual relationship.
Five Top Tips for Better Relationships
Let’s look at some ways you can improve your relationships. Whether it be with a friend, lover or partner these five tips may be of value and help you to think of things you can do to benefit the important relationships in your life.
Five Top Tips for Better Sleep
Here are my notes from my BBC Radio 5 Live appearance on 8 May 2013. Managing stress and supporting better quality sleep are an important part of our commitment to our overall health and well being.
Do You Want to Wear a 100 Day Shirt?
Here it is, a shirt that doesn’t need washing or ironing for 100 days! But do you really want to wear the same shirt all the time, and buying 10 shirts, but in different colours kind of defeats the object, doesn’t it?
How to Deal With a Difficult Relationship With Our Mother or Father
Sometimes problems and disagreements can cause our relationship with one or both parents to become strained or even estranged. Here are some suggestions to help deal with such a distressing time in life.
Enjoy Quality Time With Mother
As we get older our relationship with mother changes. And yet it is still important to value the relationship and find different ways to enjoy the time we have with her.
My Journey to Writing
I have been asked several times about how my writing career came about. Here’s the story as well as some of my personal top tips.
Where to Start?
Sometimes deciding on the first step can be the biggest step of all towards reaching your goals, Formulating your ideas, breaking them down into bite size chunks can take courage, determination and focus. Enjoy this guest article from Jane Splisbury.
When Things Don’t Go to Plan
We can spend a lot of time and effort in attempting to make things as perfect as possible, but is it really necessary? Whilst it’s important to do of our best, it is often the mistakes, things that went wrong and difficult times that make the most impact and teach us the most. Let’s consider what happens when things don’t go to plan.
Relationships Take Time and Effort
It’s so easy to get swept along with our everyday lives, become so busy that we almost forget to nurture the important relationship that we have. But relationships need attention and care. Let’s look at how relationship counselling can help.
The Importance of Relationships in Our Lives
We may not stop to consider the many special people with whom we share our daily lives, but if those relationships start to struggle it can have distressing consequences. Let’s look at some ways to support our important relationships.
Is Work Too Important in Your Life?
Many of us define ourselves through our work but there is a danger that it can become all-consuming, to the detriment of other areas in our life. Let’s consider if work is too important to you.
Enjoy Your Time With Mother
Mothers Day is a time when we may especially stop to consider our mother, motherhood and its role on our lives. Here are a few thoughts on ways to enjoy your relationship and time with mother all the year round.
Should We Talk About Death and Dying?
Why do we find it difficult to talk about death and dying? What’s the best way to approach it, does it give comfort? These are the notes from my BBC Radio Manchester interview on the subject, 7 February 2013
Hypnotherapy, Self Care and Sleep
This mini article covers some of the topics covered in today’s 2 hour radio interview at Redshift Radio.