What happens when your nest becomes empty, all your chicks have flown and you look at your big daddy bird and think ……WOW – a big fat nothing?  Boredom, ennui, same old, same old -  whatever way you want to put it, it now seems that this is one of the most powerful marriage killers of our generation. Plain, old [...]

Life begins at 40 – or so the old adage goes. However for many women this is a decade rife with life changing events which can turn what seemed to be a stable and steady road into the most challenging obstacle course. There are relationship breakdowns, stroppy and difficult teenagers, older children leaving home, ill and dependent parents, redundancies, money [...]

Most people think that they would like to have been more assertive in certain situations. They may feel that they were push into something or that they didn’t put their opinions across in the way that they should have. This is both common and natural. Humans get along well because we do not all demand to be heard at the [...]