Some of us are lucky enough to have supportive, loving families that help us, either to come home to, or to feel we’ve come from...

Even planning a vacation, making packing and shopping lists helps keep your mind off the problems at work...

I don’t know a single person who doesn’t do certain things because they feel they should. And these “shoulds” are usually related to feelings about...

Looking at the “whys” of weight problems are just as important as the “hows” in my book...

For some people, overeating becomes a normal response to stress, and they find themselves putting on weight, often adding to their feelings of unhappiness...

Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) – also known as “winter depression” – affects around two million people in the UK...

How is it that one day you can feel full of beans come bedtime - and another you're dragging yourself to the dinner table in a fit of exhaustion?

Anger gets a bad press... no one seems to have a good word to say about it...

What are you afraid of? The death of a loved one? Losing your job? Walking home in the dark? Spiders?

Being happy is a positive, optimistic and wonderful feeling but sometime between childhood and adulthood many of us lose sight of what happiness feels like...

If you completed the questionnaire in the last blog and feel ready and willing to take some concrete action towards overcoming your addiction, read on...

This is the first in a two part series of blogs looking at addiction – what it is, why it happens, and what we can do about it...

If you feel unhappy or discontented at work, it may not be the work itself that’s the problem, but the people...

How do you feel about winter? Do you look forward to wrapping up warm for bracing walks and then hunkering down...

There’s a lot of talk in the media about how difficult it is to find work, and it can take some courage to challenge the pervasive cultural attitude that you’re lucky to have any job...

Social media has provided us with many tools, one of which is the ability to present the persona of our choosing to the outside world...

Work-related stress is one of the most common reasons people come to me for help, which is why I’m devoting a series of blogs to the issue...

A study conducted just this month on parenting website NetMums found that nearly three quarters of women feared for their jobs when they took maternity leave...

It’s the final of The Apprentice tonight, where Sir Alan Sugar will choose a business partner from two finalists...

There are many reasons people may be afraid of flying – for some, it’s about loss of control...