by Steve Emery | Jul 25, 2019 | Relationships
Human Beings are social animals. As far as we know we started our existence in small groups somewhere in Africa and continued this way for nearly 200,000 years living in social communities. However, many of us don’t live that way anymore. Here in the west, much more...
by Kelly Seaward | May 19, 2019 | Relationships
And so the story begins… Nine years ago I was blessed with a cat. My childhood home only briefly had pets: a puppy which got ill very quickly and had to be put down. Another puppy, which ran away while we were on holiday, when staying with my aunt and uncle and...
by Inge Beckers | Mar 17, 2019 | Relationships
The late Chris Peterson, one of the founding fathers of positive psychology would often begin lectures by stating: “I can sum up positive psychology in just three words: Other People Matter. Period. Anything that builds relationships between and among people is going...
by Fizza Shah | Jan 15, 2019 | Relationships
Positive Psychology and Love To be or not to be in love? That is the question. Everyone knows love is good for you but what does positive psychology say about. Let’s kick start the process of love with some philosophical references such as Irving Singer (1984) who...
by Caralyn Cox | Aug 20, 2018 | Relationships
I’m reading so much these days about how parenting has become uninvolved as children seem to vie for attention with the latest social media tweet, Instagram pictures or Facebook post. In fact it’s very easy to become lost in the world or lives of others in a social...
by Nicola Morgan | Aug 12, 2018 | Relationships
“They **** you up, your mum and dad. They don’t mean to but they do” – Philip Larkin, This Be the Verse I have two teenage daughters aged 13 and 16; when I tell people this, I am often met with a sharp intake of breath – oooo, teenagers, that’s a difficult age! ...
