Dementia - Grief - Christmas Each year I post on social media quite a bit to support those who are grieving through Christmas time. I also look for the posts that support my own grieving self through this time. I rarely find any that speak to my grief in the way I seem to [...]
You feel uneasy and have a nagging sense that things just aren’t right, but surely things will settle down, right? How do you really know when you are in need of couples counselling? Here are 5 signs to watch out for: Your attempts to sort stuff out end up making things worse. A lot [...]
Many people think that once they move out from their family home, they’ll also be moving away from dysfunctional family patterns and childhood pains. This is not always true. Many people who have ‘unfinished business’ from their family of origin often find themselves troubled by the same sorts of harmful patterns and relationship hurts [...]
Are you living with someone who suffers from mental illness? Then you are probably living with very high levels of stress in your life. The impact of mental illness on those who are in relationship with the sufferer is often exhausting, frustrating, heart breaking, chaotic and sometimes scary. If your loved one suffers from [...]
Divorce is rated as the second most distressing event a person can experience in life; being preceded only by the death of a spouse. Surprised? I doubt it if you are someone who is going through a divorce or have experienced divorce in your life. Divorce is in fact, like a death – there [...]
Anger is a powerful secondary emotion usually experienced in response to a sense of harm that someone has inflicted upon us (insult, criticism, abandonment, physical attack etc). Anger can also rise up in us sometimes from our own misperceptions of reality, destructive thinking about normal life issues or memories of past traumatic events. Underlying [...]
Blended families are as old as time, however they are becoming more and more common in today’s society. Building a new family from two previous families due to either divorce or the death of a spouse will present many challenging variables along the way that can potentially generate feelings of isolation, resentment and emotional [...]
