Relationships and family
Jealousy, communication, break-ups and family: how we bond and what it teaches us.
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- OCD and obsessions
- Anxiety and stress
- Emotions and wellbeing
- Relationships and family
- Trauma and dissociation
- Personality
- Asperger’s and neurodiversity
- Mind, brain and medication
- Going to therapy
Relationships and familyDo we really know how to communicate?
We talk a lot, listen little and stay silent for fear of rejection. Why we communicate worse than we think, and how to start changing it.
Relationships and familyHannes's Decision
Hannes had to choose between his marriage and the woman he loved. A real case about how fear and the need for security weigh on the decisions we make.
Relationships and familyHow a Broken Heart Heals
After a break-up, some habits keep reopening the wound: staying in touch, blaming everything on them or on yourself, isolating. How to let your heart heal.
Relationships and familyLearn about yourself through the bonds you create
Your relationships can act as a mirror: how to move from judge to observer to understand your reactions and build healthier bonds with partners and family.
Relationships and familyMatters of the heart
Idealised love and the soulmate myth lie behind many broken hearts and relationship OCD. Why these beliefs hurt us and how therapy can help.
Relationships and familyThe biochemistry of love
What happens in the brain when we fall in love: serotonin, oxytocin, the amygdala and the prefrontal cortex, and why being in love has a use-by date.
Relationships and familyWhen couples therapy is doomed to fail
When will couples therapy not work, and when is there a real chance? The broken vase metaphor: the pieces, the glue and the hands that mend it.