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Three Questions After Discovering An Affair
Discovering that your significant other has betrayed you is devastating. Most feel completely destroyed once they discovered the infidelity and do not know how to feel or react to the situation. To help you process abs understand how to proceed, here are three...
Four Everyday Exercises to Manage Your Anger
Unless you are enlightened and surrounded by nothing but other enlightened beings, chances are you run into people and events that make you angry sometimes. And that okay. Anger is a widespread and vital emotion. In many instances, it serves as a critical compass...
Five Ways To Reignite The Spark In Your Relationship
"The spark' is a phrase that gets used around romantic relationships. You might have felt 'the spark' at the beginning of your relationship and as a result, the early days were exhilarating for you and your partner. However, like every other flame, it will ebb and...
Can Eating Fruits and Vegetables Help Your Mental Health?
We are all told to eat more fruits and vegetables for our physical health. However, did you know that the nutrients in fruits and veggies are essential for balancing your mood? A study from Warwick University in the UK tracked the eating habits of over 80,000 adults...
Creating And Sharing Goals As a Couple
Couples Counselling in Hove and Online to Explore Meaning in Relationships Many authors from Victor Frankl to Pema Chodron have talked about the importance of living with a purpose. Purpose allows us to transcend the individual self and create meaningful moments of...
How To Heal After A Loss
How To Heal After A Loss Of A Significant Relationship Experiencing the death of a partner is one of the hardest things we can face. Often what can make grieving even more challenging is the feeling that somehow we are doing it wrong? Grieving is a unique experience,...
Four Signs Your Partner is Potentially Unfaithful
Is there a threat to your relationship? Remember when Ashley Madison, the American based website that helps people cheat on their partners was hacked? As news spread, many were left wondering if partners were capable of cheating and their relationship was threatened....
Why People Misunderstand Anxiety
Did you ever play ‘telephone’ when you were little? You may have whispered a secret message into the ear of a friend. That kid then whispered the ‘same’ message into the ear of her friend. We would whisper these messages around to the last kid who would have the job...
How to Talk to Your Kids About Divorce
Going through a separation or divorce can be one of the most stressful and emotional times in a person’s life. It is hard enough, wrapping your head around the event, but trying to break the news to your children can be especially tricky. Many parents struggle to have...
Get Some Sleep! Five Tips for Busting Through Your Insomnia
Insomnia, the on-going inability to get sufficient sleep, is a problem affecting millions. More than a third of us are not getting enough sleep daily. A lack of sleep can be at the root of chronic medical conditions. Obesity, high blood pressure, heart disease,...
Relate Charity Publishes the Effects of the Pandemic on Relationships
Research from relate on the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on our relationships Very recent research from Relate, the UK's largest provider of couples and relationship support suggests that more than one in eight people interviewed who live with their...
When Is The Right Time For Couples Counselling?
Making the decision to go to couples counselling For better or for worse, those words seem easy to say at the time, but when worse gets bad, many couples are ready to throw in the towel. This is often because they didn’t seek help in time and let things get out...
Coping with working from home during Coronavirus
Many of us, during the working week, have turned off our alarm wishing we could work from home. In theory, working from home sounds ideal. However, when it has become a sudden reality, it presents many challenges. Children home from school want our attention while we...
How To Tell If You’re A Highly Sensitive Person
Wondering if you are a sensitive person? Some people seemed to be born with nerves outside of their skin; these people tend to be more sensitive than their parents, brothers and sisters, all the kids in their class. They cannot get through a movie (even a comedy) or a...
How Do I Know if I’m Not Straight?
The “Q” in LGBTQ: How Do I Know if I’m Not Straight? The study of sexual orientation has been quite a controversial area of psychology, raising numerous questions. What makes a person identify as queer, and what percentage of the population currently identifies as...