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18Sep

How to Stop Losing Sleep Over Your Teen's Choices

Rachel Coler Mulholland

anxiety, family, parenthood, parenting, stress

Relationships

As a parent, it might be agonising to watch your teen make imperfect choices. Counsellor Rachel Coler Mulholland explores how you can manage your anxiety in order to give your teen space to learn for themselves
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25Sep

Losing My Child to University

Sarah Meadows

change, family, identity, midlife, motherhood, mothers, parenthood, parenting, parents, student, university

Therapists

Children leaving for university symbolises a big time of change for parents, too. Sarah Meadows shares her experience of the complex feelings related to her child leaving home, as well as what has helped for her
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30Mar

Book of the Month: Parenting for Humans by Dr Emma Svanberg

Dr Emma Svanberg

bookofthemonth, books, childhood, children, family, fatherhood, identity, motherhood, mothers, parenthood, parenting, parents

Relationships

Welldoing's Book of the Month for March is Parenting for Humans by Dr Emma Svanberg. Not your usual parenting book, it focuses on you as a parent, who you are, which stories have influenced you, and what scripts you might be following
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09Apr

Supporting Your Partner After Baby Loss

Kay King

bereavement, body, couples, grief, health, loss, marriage, miscarriage, parenthood, parenting, pregnancy, relationships

Relationships

Losing a baby at any stage of pregnancy can be devastating. Grief specialist and author of Why Baby Loss Matters Kay King explores how you can support your partner at this time of grief.
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24Aug

8 Tips to Help Your Anxious Child

Poppy O'Neill

anxiety, child, children, family, fatherhood, motherhood, parenthood, parenting, parents, tips

Relationships

Anxiety can be particularly difficult for children to manage, especially if they are too young to be able to communicate their feelings to you. Poppy O'Neill, author of 101 Tips For Your Anxious Child, offers 8 practical ways you can support your child in managing anxious feelings.
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02Jul

How We Coped With Our Teenage Daughter's Anorexia

Mark Simmonds

anorexia, children, eatingdisorders, family, fatherhood, parenthood, parenting, teenagers

Mind

Mark Simmonds shares how he and his wife supported their daughter Emily, who lived with anorexia as a teenager. Family therapy gave Mark and his wife helpful tools to ensure their own behaviour gave Emily the best possible chance of recovery.
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26Apr

Parenting in Lockdown: Managing Changing Roles, Responsibilities and Emotions

Annie Broadbent

coronavirus, family, home, parenthood, parenting

Therapists

Therapist Annie Broadbent explores why co-parenting in lockdown might bring up such difficult feelings and how parents can adapt to working more closely together than ever before.
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21Mar

Why Are Mother-Daughter Relationships So Complex?

Holli Rubin

family, motherhood, mothers, mothersday, parenthood

Therapists

Mother-daughter relationships are known for being fraught with complications. Therapist Holli Rubin, who offers specialist mother-daughter 'couples' therapy, explores why this is
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02May

Why I Wrote a Book About Miscarriage

Julia Bueno

books, grief, miscarriage, parenthood, trauma, women

Therapists

After losing her twins at 22 weeks, Julia Bueno has written a book about miscarriage, The Brink of Being, to support others
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11Apr

​The Day My Father Told Me He Wasn’t My Dad

Anonymous Therapist

family, father, parenthood

Relationships

The revelation that Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby's natural father is a story that has intrigued the media. For this female therapist a similar bombshell came as a shock that she believes she has now absorbed
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