Relationships

Recent research suggests social ties are as important to our health and wellbeing as diet and exercise. As extensions of ourselves and microcosms of society, our homes are the perfect place to start designing and building better relationships.

Needing help is not a weakness. Learn how to step beyond society’s love affair with self-reliance and embrace your vulnerabilities.

If you only hold a pen to scrawl out your shopping list and the contents of your letterbox are solely bills, you’re not alone. While these days most of us communicate mainly through social media, email and text, fortunately the art of letter writing is not lost. Time to put pen to paper.

A triad of roles — the Persecutor, the Rescuer and the Victim — dominate many human interactions. Identify which role you follow and discover how to change your archetypal dynamic.

Unhealthy, toxic relationships can cause you real emotional and physical harm. So it’s time to detox those relationships that are getting you down.

Whatever circumstance or behaviour led you to feel it, guilt is an emotion that needs to be dealt with in order to leave the past where it belongs.

If you’re having them, you’re loving them, but you may not realise the huge range of health benefits orgasms bring.

Secrets are inevitable, but how do you know which secrets are good or bad for kids? We navigate the rocky waters of secret keeping and explore how to negotiate this delicate dance with your children.

While there are wonderful qualities to being shy, it doesn’t come without its challenges. Especially when you’re a parent bearing witness to your child’s shyness. Here’s how you can help them live in an extroverted world while still honouring who they are.

Our sense of loneliness is increasing in the developed world, with negative repercussions for our mental, physical, social and economic wellbeing. Given we no longer live in villages, nor can we turn back the clock, what can we do to restore our lost communities?

Finances can stir up an array of tension when love is thrown in the mix. Find out how to manage the money matters in your relationship with ease.

Protectors of our past and keepers of family traditions, grandparents play a vital role in families. By sharing unconditional love, kindness, compassion and comfort, the relationship between grandparent and grandchild can be caring, nurturing and nourishing for the whole family.