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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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27Jan

Meditation: My Journey Begins

Nick Duerden

meditation, stress

Soul

I have never had much time in my life for peace or quiet, and have never really craved either. My mind is a happy hive of perpetual activity, everything churning away up there all the time, day and night. My wife points out, with reason, that I never sit still, never stop. At night, I dream of work, and on holidays, thanks to technology, I take it with me. In sleep, I grind my teeth. The RSI I developed 20 years ago was put down to overwork, poor posture, bad habits, a lack of inner calm. My solution was to start swimming, every day. I swam fast, faster than people in...
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23Jan

Is Your Partner a Sociopath?

Jane McGregor

couple, psychology, sociopath

Relationships

Sociopaths are people with little or no conscience or ability to empathize with other peoples’ feelings. One sociopath in the course of their lifetime will harm many people but hurt most those with whom they have intimate and close relations. Although many operate as seeming ‘model citizens’, behind the façade they have interpersonal deficits such as grandiosity, arrogance and deceitfulness, lack of guilt and empathy, and impulsive and occasionally criminal behaviours. It’s easy to miss these traits in someone you love because you are not expecting to see them....
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23Jan

How I Felt When I Gave Up Sugar

Camilla Nicholls

health, nutrition

Body

Giving up sugar may be good for your health, but it is difficult for your brain to process says Camilla Nicholls
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23Jan

Culture tip: The Reason I Jump

Jon Madge

books

Soul

Knowing what we’re really thinking is an elusive enough goal, knowing what someone else has on their mind is harder still, and what if that person thinks in an entirely different way? That’s often how the minds of people with autism are depicted: qualitatively different and impossible to understand. The Reason I Jump breaks through a lot of the misconceptions surrounding autism and gives an insight into how the author, a person with autism himself, sees the world. Translated, and featuring a forward, by acclaimed author David Mitchell, the book is a combination of...
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22Jan

Can TV Make Us Happy?

Jon Madge

happiness, psychology, society, TV

Mind

With the National Television Awards tonight and controversy over television programmes filling the papers again, it might be a good time to look at how the television we watch affects our well-being. Our brains are incredibly susceptible to what we watch, in part because of two bits of biological programming. One is that we’re designed to not waste energy, so sitting down and having information come to us feels easy. The other biological quirk is that new experiences register as stronger than familiar ones, we’re hard-wired to seek out novelty. Television provides us...
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22Jan

How to Recover From an Affair

Welldoing

divorce, marriage, sex

Relationships

Many marriages survive the infidelity of one partner, but there are some critical things both must accept first
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22Jan

What is Trauma?

Nicole Addis

anxiety, bereavement, depression, divorce, redundancy, stress, therapy, trauma

Therapists

Trauma covers such areas as divorce, bereavement, redundancy, ill health - all the shocks and tribulations that can shake one's ordinary life to the core
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21Jan

What are Viniyoga and Yoga Therapy?

Lucy Greeves

yoga

Body

Viniyoga is focused on the breath. It is less of a workout, more of a meditation. Yoga therapy is usually one-to-one
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21Jan

Can Exercise Make You More Creative?

Lucy Marcovitch

art, creativity, exercise, writing

Body

How taking exercise can help solve creative problems
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