Alongside the gifts and good food arrives a big box of expectations – all creating an atmosphere that feels highly-charged and which could be explosive. What if we do not wish to conform this year? Is it hard to risk disappointing others? Does it feel too challenging...
Addictive behaviours draw in other family members. There will be instinctive reactions in concerned onlookers of anyone with an eating disorder. The Maudsley Hospital in South London have developed a range of descriptive animal metaphors to clearly illustrate the...
While the birth of the Royal baby has brought much attention in the media to the Royal couple, they are of course new parents going through many of the joys and struggles that all new parents experience. Having a baby is wonderful but getting through the early months...
To have and to hold or to have, love and let go, which is the question? The questions presented are both applicable to either relationships or parents and children. To have and to hold is to be avoided if possible in both areas. To hold a partner is stifling and...
It is impossible not to be affected in some way if you are living in a family with an alcohol dependent member. The negative effects will touch everyone around a problem drinker. Living with chaos and unpredictability are the main effects on families, but alcoholism...
When an adult twin finds a partner and the other twin is still single how easy is it for the single twin to remain pleased and excited for the other couple? The sense of being left adrift and alone can be acute and the single twin can find themselves inadvertently or...
