The type of support your children might need will depend on their personalities and the reasons for and the nature of the divorce, is it amicable or a war? Let’s assume significant amounts of child centred insight on both parents’ parts and
Mental health expert Noel McDermott examines what our children need through periods of transition; it’s first important to understand what we mean psychologically by a transition. A transition isn’t just a change of something, it is a change that requires an emotional
Getting a hug during times of change One of the most important things to learn about having healthy ways of navigating change is to fully accept that a different set of rules apply to transitions for all humans. Change is perceived by
Resilience isn’t a skill, or a thing that we achieve, it’s how we organise our lives on a daily, weekly, monthly and yearly basis. We can pretty much guarantee that life will throw curve balls at us. It’s not possible to insulate
Christmas is a stressful time of year and if there are any underlying vulnerabilities which are not managed then they are likely to surface and this is true right across the board. During this time we see many relationships under pressure and
‘Mental health first aid’ is a term that is most often used in workplaces and it’s also a form of training you can take: like all first aid it is about recognising signs that someone needs help, stabilising if any immediate risk
The first thing to understand is that infidelity is a lot more common than is thought, it is believed that about 25% of men are thought to have extra relational affairs, and about 15% of women. There are biosocial reasons for this
It’s clear that staying together for the sake of the kids is no longer something we believe in. In the UK, divorce rates are high (42% of marriages end up in divorce), and this is not likely to drop. The question is
Toxic masculinity is discussed in mainstream media quite a lot having migrated from a narrow academic interest in gender studies course and come to cover a range of problematic behaviours around rigid gender roles. In 2018, the American Psychological Association issued the
The first thing to do is to give up thinking that there is a simple rule book for life or relationships as there isn’t and the desire to have one might suggest anxiety about taking risks. Life involves taking risks and if