Anxiety can be extremely exhausting and can leave us feeling physically and emotionally drained. In an ideal world we would all have friends and fam…

As I glanced at the daffodils I had bought four days earlier, I was disappointed to find they had not managed to come to full bloom. Some of them had…

Is this the best way to show your concern?

The feeling of picking up the phone, the butterflies in the tummy, the anxiety on that first meeting. What will s(he) think of me? What will I say? W…

Very few of us really know how to listen well. After all, we haven't really been taught how to do it. Think about the last time you felt someone was…

We often spend time trying to build relationships or re-build relationships with 'those' who give us a hard time. 'Those' can be anyone; family, col…

Susie Orbach famously wrote in her 1970’s classic of the same title that “fat is a feminist issue”, I would like to say that overeating is almost alw…

Divorce is a known major life-changing event which is often associated with psychological problems such as depression and anxiety, with unhelpful cop…

I started thinking about anxiety this week when my parents took home their brand new puppy Roxy. The first day we took her home she was terrified! Sh…

Infidelity, many would suggest it heralds the end of the relationship yet it need not necessarily be so. Infidelity is a huge emotional crisis and un…

No one likes to get it wrong (right?). Most of us tend to have an innate aversion to wrongness, to being wrong, getting it wrong. But why?Think of a…

What is ambivalence? The word ambivalence can be used for a wide array of psychological conflicts that involve conflicting factors, thoughts or feel…