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29May

How to Be Assertive and Set Healthy Boundaries

Jane McGregor

boundaries, family, friendship, relationships, self, work

Mind

Many people find it difficult to be assertive. Setting healthy boundaries can be the first steps to feeling you can take charge posts psychologist Jane McGregor
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25Apr

Keeping the Political Peace with Friends and Family

Karen Pollock

family, friendship, politics, society

Therapists

Therapist Karen Pollock has advice for people who worry that the General Election will, like Brexit, cause ruptures in their family and social lives
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02Apr

Social Eating Helps Connect Communities

The Big Lunch

family, friendship, happiness, health, loneliness, society, wellbeing

Soul

Research shows that eating together communally gives people much-needed emotional and social support. The Big Lunch promotes this ideal
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07Feb

Why You Can't Make it Alone

Gilead Yeffett

cbt, friendship, relationships, resilience, self, stoicism

Therapists

Self-reliance isn't all it's cracked up to be. It's relationships and friendships that keep us mentally healthy writes therapist Gilead Yeffett
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19Nov

The Importance of Conversation

Judy Piatkus

friendship, relationships, society, wellbeing

Soul

Judy Piatkus wanted to bring together people to share opinions, knowledge and experience, so she set up ConsciousCafe. On November 27 it will host a one-day conference in London
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30Oct

Why We Should Support Each Other

Ryan Holiday

family, friendship, identity, relationships, self, society, stoicism

Soul

Don't let struggles with life's problems isolate you from others. Extract from Ryan Holiday's The Daily Stoic
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19Oct

How to Support a Loved One with Breast Cancer

AXA PPP

cancer, carer, friendship, illness

Relationships

October is breast cancer awareness month; here Evelyn Wallace offers advice on how to support a loved one with breast cancer and how to check your own breasts are healthy
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27Sep

We Need to Celebrate the Lives of Loved Ones After Death

Louise Chunn

bereavement, death, friendship

Relationships

Going to memorial tributes for two former colleagues and friends has Louise Chunn thinking of how and when we should celebrate the lives of people we have lost
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07Jul

Envy and Betrayal in post-Brexit Politics

Sue Cowan-Jenssen

Brexit, friendship, society

Therapists

What does Michael Gove's betrayal of Boris Johnson tells us about the toxic quality of envy? Sue Cowan-Jenssen examines the evidence
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15Jun

In or Out: Don't Let Brexit Ruin Your Relationships

Lyn Reed

family, friendship, relationships, society

Therapists

Therapist Lynn Reed explains how to keep harmony in family and work relationships after the Brexit referendum has ended
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