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04Jun

5 Self-Esteem Boosts for Stay-at-Home Mums

Harriet Frew

care, family, home, love, self, wellbeing

Therapists

Therapist Harriet Frew offers 5 self-esteem boosting tips for stay-at-home mums, for when being at home with your children is getting you down.
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23May

Dementia Awareness Week 2015: Trust in Your Local Library

Debbie Hicks

care, dementia, elderly, family, love, society

Mind

Debbie Hicks, director of The Reading Agency, explains how their scheme Reading Well Books on Prescription supports people with dementia, their carers and family members.
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21May

Dementia Awareness Week 2015: Treasuring Memories

Wendy Varley

care, dementia, elderly, family, love, self

Soul

In our second post for Dementia Awareness Week 2015, Wendy Varley reflects on the importance of documenting and treasuring our unique memories.
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30Apr

The Importance of Friendship

Harriet Frew

friendship, loneliness, love, self, society

Therapists

Therapist Harriet Frew reflects on the importance of meaningful friendships and offers her advice on how to embrace friendship to combat feelings of loneliness and isolation.
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01Apr

How Well Do you Know your Family?

Jean Paul

family, home, love, wellbeing

Relationships

How often do you talk to your relatives? I mean, REALLY talk to them? Jean-Paul Flintoff, member of the faculty of The School of Life, offers advice on how to get to know your family better.
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12Mar

Caring for Someone with Dementia

June Andrews

dementia, elderly, family, home, love

Mind

Having dementia is very worrying. The stress leads to upsetting behaviour, and that is the sort of thing that people find hard to deal with at home. All of them will be solved more easily if there is a relaxed atmosphere at home. If someone is shouting, repeating themselves, refusing to eat, staying cool and tranquil would be a miracle.  So the secret is to put as much in place as possible to keep a stress-free background environment. This means avoiding over-stimulation - and everyone has different things that they find stimulating, so you have to decide for...
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05Mar

Life After a Break Up Part 2

Chris Taylor

counselling, couple, love, single, therapy

Therapists

The second part of our advice on how to move on after a break up - this week focusing on loss, acceptance and impermanence.
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03Mar

Why Self-Compassion is as Important as Self-Esteem

Rachel Kelly

empathy, family, love, wellbeing

Mind

My eleven-year-old daughter was complaining about her friend Mary. ‘She’s keeps boasting about her new school,’ she confided, looking despondent. ‘It’s got the most amazing netball courts and clubs for everything...and she’s got much nicer clothes than me...' As she began to sob, spouting a familiar litany about how her life was so much worse than Mary’s, I thought of Kristen Neff. She’s an American academic from Houston, who has put numbers to what I’ve long suspected as the mother of two daughters: the competition game starts young, and girls in particular...
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26Feb

Life After a Break Up

Chris Taylor

breakups, couple, love, relationships, single

Therapists

The end of a relationship can be traumatic, no matter what the circumstances. Welldoing therapist Chris Taylor offers his healing tips in a 2 part series.
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13Feb

10 Ways to Sweep Yourself Off Your Feet This Valentine's Day

Anonymous

love, self, single, tips, wellbeing

Soul

Sigh. It’s V-day. Plastic, commercialised love is all around. No, maybe that’s not entirely fair; why shouldn’t couples have a day to show some (cheesy) appreciation? But for people who don’t fit the cookie-cutter template it can be frustratingly difficult to avoid Valentine's day. Many people feel increasing pressure and self-criticism for not being partnered up this February 14th. I don’t see that hypocrite Cupid flying around with his girlfriend or boyfriend all the time, but somehow we’re all supposed to feel that way on this day. Here’s...
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