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The Christmas/holiday season is approaching, and many of us are going to be spending time with our families….

Enough. "The required degree, or extent”. In what world is sufficient, or adequate the same as ample or abundant? What is enough?

Getting to sleep can seem an unattainable dream; here are my tips for how to get a restful night's sleep.

Who says that the pain of a broken heart is less when the relationship lasted a short time, that only the end of a longer relationship deserves tears? A broken heart is a broken heart. There is no hierarchy of pain.

When bad things happen to good people the natural, and very normal, response is to scream “it’s not fair!” But it’s what we choose to do about it that counts. Choose life.

Pain is Inevitable, Suffering is Not. I used to want to scream at people who said that. But it's true. Allowing ourselves to feel empathy and compassion for others’ pain makes us human.

Most people think in terms of fight or flight. But there are three further traumatic responses available. Have you never heard of the rabbit in the headlights?

Scent & scented oil. An invisible protection that you can carry in your pocket. A life-saver.

We all have the voices inside. The inner critic, the one who bullies you. How do we make peace and quiet the voices that torture us and put us down, when those voices are parts of us?

Existing, conventional, approaches to recovery need improvement. The ReConnected Life Experience pioneers a whole-self approach to recovery which empowers us to take control for ourselves

Before Rape. After Rape. People say, we’re forever changed. No. He doesn’t have that power, not anymore.

Labels are supposed to be useful shortcuts to describe things and people. And yet they come with a whole bunch of preconceptions & associations which are not useful at all.