How people learn to become resilient

How people learn to become resilient

Resilience presents a challenge.. Whether you can be said to have it or not largely depends not on any particular psychological test but on the way your life unfolds. If you are lucky enough to never experience any sort of adversity, we won’t know how resilient you are. It’s only when you’re faced with obstacles, stress, and other environmental threats that resilience, or the lack of it, emerges: Do you succumb or do you surmount?

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Professor Margareta James on why people are littering more now lockdown is lifting

Professor Margareta James on why people are littering more now lockdown is lifting

Littering got worse in recent weeks to the point that it is incredibly upsetting to see. We see this and ask why?

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Isolation fatigue: why we’re suddenly impatient about lockdown ending

Isolation fatigue: why we’re suddenly impatient about lockdown ending

At this time of uncertainty, Professor Margareta James, Founding director of the Harley Street Wellbeing Clinic, tells Stylist the brain reverts to survival mode. We are over-vigilant, highly alert and as everything changes so rapidly, we feel we need to keep up with the news.

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Professor Margareta James on domestic abuse increase during lockdown and how to seek help

Professor Margareta James on domestic abuse increase during lockdown and how to seek help

Our homes are safe places to retreat to. When people are dealing with domestic violence, the home is no longer safe, in fact, the home is a battleground.

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What Comes Next: More physical affection and smaller circles – how friendships will change as a result of coronavirus

What Comes Next: More physical affection and smaller circles – how friendships will change as a result of coronavirus

As the lockdown forced us to keep away from our friends, there is a question about whether our friendships change as a result of this?

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Signs of stress in your children and teens

Signs of stress in your children and teens

Young people, like adults, experience stress. It can come from a variety of sources including doing well in school, making and sustaining friendships, or managing perceived expectations from their parents, teachers or coaches. Some stress can be positive in that it provides the energy to tackle a big test, presentation or sports event. Too much stress, however, can create unnecessary hardship and challenge. Adults can sometimes be unaware when their children or teens are experiencing overwhelming feelings of stress.

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How to prevent bullying - ditch the yes or no questions

How to prevent bullying - ditch the yes or no questions

If you want to stop your child from being bullied — or better yet, prevent it in the first place — there is a very simple thing you can do: talk to your child.

We don’t so much mean talk to your child about standing up to bullies, or about letting a teacher know if they see or experience bullying, although both of those are important messages for your child to hear. We mean literally just talk to your child, so that you can better get to know him or her — and better get to know what their daily life is like.

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Russell Brand talks about his new book, RECOVERY

Russell Brand talks about his new book, RECOVERY

Some great advice in Russell Brand's new book on how to tackle addiction. A philosophical approach to life and how we are trying to cope with pain, to make ourselves feel better. We often go external and try to shift our emotions through using drugs, alcohol, sex, eating, shopping. There is another way. We work with...

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Worrying research points to a crisis situation - quarter of 14-year-old girls 'have signs of depression'

Worrying research points to a crisis situation - quarter of 14-year-old girls 'have signs of depression'

A quarter of girls and nearly one in 10 boys show signs of depression at the age of 14, say UK researchers. The government-funded study of over 10,000 young people looked at how many experienced the signs of depression not a clinical diagnosis of one.

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Parenting in real life...

Parenting in real life...

Before becoming parents, we all have a view of how we will raise our children, what we will do and won’t ever do in situations, and how we will shape their little lives, so they can be happy, healthy and can live a fulfilling life they desire. Then something happens...

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