We have a clear understanding of what an affair is and this normally involves sex. Emotional affairs do not involve sex but can be even more damaging. What is an Emotional Affair? An emotional affair between two people is a relationship with the closeness and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
“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! ...
As I sit on the plane back to Dubai after my quarterly visit to Iran to visit my kids, I think of all the ways that laughing with my kids has helped our relationship. My situation is slightly different as my kids don’t live with me and I only see them for a week at a...
My mom would have been my rock, my support system, my encourager… …If I had more time with her… When I needed her the most, she was dying. Losing your mother A 25-year-old needs her mother. I still need my mom. Why did I get jipped and left motherless? Mothering...
February was the month of LOVE and while that has been awesome for some it’s maybe been a totally different story for others – including me. I chose to break up with my boyfriend the day before my birthday, which is 2 days before Valentines Day – now this is hard but...
As it is the month of LOVE I thought I would dedicate this months blog to it. There are many types of love and each relationship can benefit from adding a good dose of laughter. As we all know, laughter makes us feel good and helps us have that feel good factor that...