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23Apr

How to Stay Out of Debt

Dehra Mitchell

childhood, family, money, stress, therapy

Therapists

Discover the hidden reasons for your feelings of shame about money and debt
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11Mar

My Mad Fat Diary: Journals as Therapy

Wendy Varley

creativity, family, therapy, TV

Soul

It doesn't matter in which decade you were an adolescent, My Mad Fat Diary will resonate. It's dark, funny, touching and painfully true. I was never fat (though I thought I was, agonising over my weight when it crept over – shock horror! – 9st) and never mad (though it's jarring to re-read my diaries and see the young me passing off casual mention of suicidal thoughts as "nervous tension"), but watching this programme is a sweet agony. It transports me right back to those teenage years of acute self-consciousness and vulnerability when binge-eating followed by...
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20Feb

How Tiger Parenting Kills Curiosity

Terri Apter

children, education, family, father, mother, parenting, psychology

Relationships

Psychologist Dr Terri Apter on the downside of tiger-parenting. It robs children of curiosity
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11Feb

The Emotional and Psychological Impact of Infertility

Nicole Addis

body, family, health, infertility, men, pregnancy, women

Therapists

Many people struggle emotionally and psychologically if they discover they cannot have children when they want to. Nicole Addis explains.
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03Feb

Taking Care of Our Elderly

Wendy Varley

care, elderly, family, society

Relationships

More and more of us have an elderly relative in residential care. Currently more than 400,000 people in the UK live in care homes, a figure which is bound to rise further, given the ageing population (there are currently 3 million people aged over 80 in the UK, and that figure is predicted to almost double by 2030. Currently one-in-six of the UK population is aged over 65; by 2050 it will be one-in-four). NICE the (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) has issued new guidance on improving the mental wellbeing of older people in residential care, via a...
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27Jan

How to Talk to Your Daughter About Sex and Relationships

Terri Apter

family, parenting, relationships, sex, teenagers

Relationships

Mothers and daughters often have difficult times during adolescence. So how should they talk about sex and relationships, asks psychologist Dr Terri Apter
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14Jan

Can We Love Our Children Equally?

Wendy Varley

family, father, mother, parenting, siblings

Relationships

Is it possible to treat all your children exactly the same. Mother of four (including triplet girls) considers
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27Dec

Why My Relationship with My Brother Led Me to See a Therapist

Angela Neustatter

experienceoftherapy, family, siblings, therapy

Relationships

A true story of one woman's relationship with her brother and how finding a therapist ultimately helped
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24Dec

A Jewish Family Christmas

Claudine Levy

Christmas, family

Relationships

Going away to a secluded part of the Norfolk countryside for a week, with 12 members of your family, ranging from in age from nine to 90, may strike fear into the hearts of most normal folk. And yet, my family has insisted on making this a sadistic tradition for the past three years. I’m currently writing this amidst a storm of testosterone over a heated game of Risk. Family reputation is on the line here. And I find myself reluctantly pulled into conversations about football, as the only younger woman in a family of men: 3 male cousins, 2  brothers, and me. In the...
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20Dec

Can You Pass Anxiety Onto Your Children?

Anonymous Therapist

anxiety, experienceoftherapy, family, motherhood, parenting

Therapists

How therapy helped a young woman whose anxiety was linked to events in her childhood
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