If you have recently experienced an incident which has set you back in life such as a messy break-up, a redundancy or a bereavement and are looking for help and advice to help you bounce back then listed below are some tips to help you get back on your feet: 1. Lean on your support read more »

With our fairly new prime minster off duty for the next two weeks to be with his daughter, questions are being raised by the fathers who can’t afford to take their statutory paternity leave. Currently the law does very little to accommodate new fathers & even with changes soon to take place, is Britain really read more »

Could sleeping in a different room to your partner really help to spice up your love life? With more and more couples opting for separate bedrooms the Daily Mail investigates the results. Dr Neil Stanley is a leading sleep expert in the UK and has not shared a bed with his wife for nine years. read more »

A new study has revealed that growing up without siblings does not mean a child will lack social skills later on in life. The US research has contradicted a previous study which suggested that only children had poorer social skills than those with siblings. The new study involved more than 13,000 11 to 18 year read more »

According to a recent survey of 2,000, parents no longer feel lonely and depressed after their children leave for university. A poll revealed that parents whose children had recently flown the nest for university found they felt fitter, richer and more socially active as well as experiencing an improvement in their relationship. Most of the read more »

We have known for a long while that snuggling up on the sofa with a good book is a sure fire way to wind down, but now a psychologist has taken this a step further and has compiled a ”reading list for the soul” which aims to help stressed out workers deal with the stresses read more »

Let’s set the scene, so you are at home trying to ether relax or get on with something, but in the background there is the incessant droning of your husband/boy friend/partner, who is moaning continuously about a case of man flu, a swollen ankle, a runny nose etc but outright refuses to visit the doctor read more »

Often it just so happens that a first day of school causes just as much anxiety in the parents as it does in their child. With September just around the corner here are a few tips from ivillage which will help to ease those anxieties. If your child’s fast approaching first day at school is read more »

A recent study has overturned earlier research on working mothers by finding that mothers can go back to work after the birth of their child without putting their wellbeing at stake, reports the Guardian. The new study was led by New York’s Columbia University School of Social Work and was published recently by the Society read more »

According to research the more time teenagers spend outside during long summer evenings the less ready they are to go to sleep, leading to a multitude of side effects. Research shows that teenagers seem to have difficulty adjusting to long summer evenings and lighter mornings, resulting in highly disrupted sleeping patterns which in turn leads read more »