You long for a baby and get pregnant. Next step: giving birth. For most women, the process is an intense experience with an incredible reward: a baby boy or girl or sometimes even more than one. From then on, you focus on providing basic needs: clean nappies,...
Is Harold suffering from mid-life crisis? Harold is a successful businessman. With a wife, 4 kids, a big house and a big car. He didn’t know if he liked his work, wasn’t sure he liked his family life (lots of ferrying around and paying out) and found his social life,...
Bullying in the playground is awful and easily recognizable. Usually adults interfere and help the situation change. But what if you are an adult and are ‘subtly’ being bullied by friends and family? Subtle adult bullying is more common than you think. Christel, a...
‘I love her so much but every time we speak we end up with a row. We are both angry and upset.’ Trish was talking about the relationship with her mum. ‘Earlier or later in the conversation, she looks at me with a smug smile and tells me that I have turned out really...
Psychologically manipulative behaviors Manipulation is controlling something or someone to your advantage. Manipulators are people who will use whatever it takes to get what they want. It doesn’t matter that it is at the expense of others, that they twist the truth,...