If you’ve not had traditional parental support, then taking stock of your aspirations or dreams can feel self – indulgent. Or, pressing matters, such as trying to make ends meet, take priority.   Simply getting on with the daily demands of life, normally take precedence, but occasions, such as a birthdays’, can afford us to [...]

Many of us who were parent-children, endured far too many responsibilities in our early years. We had children to take care of, even though we were just kids ourselves. There was scarcely any time for us to play; we were constantly interrupted by other people’s needs, especially when we had younger siblings to look after, [...]

Those of us who endured tough childhoods, frequently suffer with emotional blurred lines. In fact, even if you had idyllic childhoods: we fragile humans struggle, when trying to correctly understand the plethora of our human emotions.   If we’ve not been heard, nurtured or loved in our informative years’: we learn silence and suppression instead. [...]

My late brother likened stress to a layer cake: neither in quantity, is good for our health. But, what can we do to alleviate the layers of stress that so many of us endure? We can think about the layer cake, and deconstruct it; to examine the varying ingredients in each layer. We can start [...]