Your stories
Jade: How being bullied can affect the rest of your life
School is meant to be one of the best times of your life. Learning who you are, while making friends and happy memories that you’ll look back on fondly when you’re all grown-up. Not so for me. From the day I started primary school to...
Dealing with my childhood sexual abuse
Today I read a book out loud, whilst with my therapist. My therapist is a safe person. A good man. We read the book about touch because I was sexually abused as a child. And as an adult, even though I am a happily married mother of two, touch and...
Understanding parental separation anxiety
You might be familiar with the term ‘separation anxiety’, understanding it as a condition that more commonly affects children, and even animals. But have you heard it used in relation to parents? Separation anxiety is common in children...
Tamara Ecclestone: My experience of separation anxiety
Speaking in an interview with happiful, Tamara Ecclestone shares her experience of separation anxiety with three-year-old daughter, Sophia. Despite being a devoted mum, Tamara admits that her unconditional love may have caused her to suffer parental...
Separation anxiety: "It felt like my heart was aching."
As a first time mum, I didn’t really know there was a problem until my daughter was nine months old. I knew I didn’t feel like myself from the very beginning, but I just assumed all new mums felt like that. I also suffered from OCD as a...