Social Ties Positive relationships help us to be happy, healthy and live longer. They provide a source of emotional and practical support, a different perspective on life’s challenges, a reduction…
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Empathy Helps Romantic Relationships Empathy matters in romantic relationships. It helps us to glide through life and towards our personal and shared goals much more easily. But whilst we expect…
Self-Compassion Matters Mistakes are a normal part of life and sometimes they can lead to the best changes that could have happened for us, our goals, our happiness and our…
Whilst post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) are very serious conditions, people do casually throw around labels such as ’trauma’, ‘traumatised’ and ‘PTSD’, without really knowing…
To Suppress Or To Not Suppress I once had a lovely client who had been on antidepressants for some time by the time our paths crossed. When we would have…
Happiness Is… We live in a world where people have gone beyond trying to keep up with their neighbours, ‘the Jonses’, and are instead trying to keep up with the…
Research: 3 Ways People With Higher Relationship Satisfaction Help Regulate Their Partners’ Emotions
Teammate To Teammate When your partner is going through a tough time emotionally, what do you do? Do you feel concerned, give them attention, and try to help them? I…
Pursuing Your Various Life Goals Living in a hyperconnected world is a blessing and a curse but perhaps one of the main challenges is how social media has tampered with…
Reversing Gender Norms Whilst having more egalitarian gender roles may work better for some in the modern day, does flipping gender roles entirely make for better romantic relationship outcomes? Apparently…
Sometimes you face major hardships in life and as a result, you might end up having depression, clinical depression, officially named major depressive disorder. Clinical depression has been found to…
