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Tag: relationship support

  • Try making a relationship resolution this year

    Try making a relationship resolution this year

    Here’s a question that came to mind on Hogmanay: why do we rarely make New Year resolutions about our relationships? Typically, we opt for an act of self-improvement like eating better, exercising more, quitting smoking or spending more time reading books that will broaden our minds and less time binge-watching Amazon Prime. All are important…

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  • Literally Searching for Answers

    Literally Searching for Answers

    Every day we pose thousands of difficult questions about many of life’s most challenging issues. But in 21st-century society, we do not put them to close friends, scientists, professional counsellors or medical professionals. We put them to Google. That’s right – we ask the world’s most famous and dominant search engine how to sort out…

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  • 5 Ways to Good Mental Health

    5 Ways to Good Mental Health

    According to figures from the Office for National Statistics in 2015, nearly 10 million adults in the UK are diagnosed with a mental illness each year. That equates to nearly 1 in 4 people, with anxiety and depression making up the majority of cases. The impact of poor mental health Mental illness can be debilitating…

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  • Something Feels Wrong in our Relationship…

    Something Feels Wrong in our Relationship…

    That sense that something is not right in a relationship – with our partner, kids, family or colleagues – often comes with a real difficulty in working out what it is. We can cause ourselves more upset and unhappiness by running over endless possibilities in our minds, tiptoeing around each other or just plain ignoring…

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