Category: Mental Health

If your relative has been given a diagnosis of a mental illness, it is useful to learn more about it so that you can understand how it is affecting your relative. By learning more about the illness and about any … Read more

Supporting a relative with a chronic mental illness can sometimes be very challenging, especially if they live in the same home. Caring for someone on a daily basis may sometimes cause practical and emotional difficulties. In fact, it is very … Read more

Motherhood changes us. From the feeling of the baby’s first kick while still pregnant to the sleepless nights during the first months, our routines change, our priorities change and our life perspective changes…

So how do we survive our first … Read more

Shame is an emotion that is often talked about in therapy. It is important to understand that someone who feels ashamed might not feel shame because they have done something wrong or something that is considered to be shameful by … Read more

The word trauma is used to describe overwhelming and emotionally painful experiences that people go through in life. The American Psychological Association describes trauma as ‘an emotional response to a terrible event like an accident, rape or natural disaster.’ Someone … Read more

Some parents complain that sex life after having kids changes. They might feel too exhausted after a day of juggling work and family commitments to have sex. Yet when the children grow up and there is more time to be … Read more

Facing a cancer diagnosis is difficult. It stops us in our tracks, makes us re-evaluate our priorities, sometimes our whole life. It changes our daily routine, our relationships and work commitments. How can we live through it and face surgery … Read more

As an individual who experienced both parents working together, I understand the struggle and the rewards of such a dynamic.  In the literature this dynamic is termed – Copreneurs, this simply means two individuals who are both in a romantic … Read more

I recently read this quote and it made me reflect: Why is the Western world so obsessed with being skinny? Visiting a museum recently, I looked at female sculptures on exhibit and thought ‘When did the idea of female beauty … Read more

What keeps us healthy and happy as we go through life? A recent study asked a group of young adults what their life goals were.  Over 80% said they wanted to be rich and another 50% said their second best … Read more