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Love and the Corona Virus: Tips For Your Relationship

It’s unusual times, there is no doubt about that.  Many couples and families are ‘isolating’ as a result of the imposed strategies of COVID-19.  This can be nectar and ‘turn up the volume’ on closeness, connection and care, as couples and families lean into each other for comfort and protection.  Sadly though, one of the symptoms of the COVID-19 on couples can also be relationship tension and distress.  Particularly when there have been underlying relationship issues, mental health or other epidemic stressors like financial hardship or parenting. If you are coupled it could be important to have some simple reminders and tools on how to navigate these times and [...]

By |2020-06-10T10:44:27+10:00March 15th, 2020|Categories: Clinic News|Tags: |Comments Off on Love and the Corona Virus: Tips For Your Relationship
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Valentine’s Day: To Do or Not Do?

Ahhh Valentine’s day!  Here I am typing towards the end of another one and I’m left with an old familiar feeling of – to do or not to do?  I have to admit, I’m generally not a big fan.  Every year the date roll’s around and every year I rub up against this tension.  Of course, as a hopeless romantic, there’s a part of me that loves the idea of a special day for lovers and can immerse myself in the idealised fantasy of romantic love.  Bliss! Yet the cynic in me struggles with the cheeseball, commercialised aspects of the day that have been vandalised in our modern culture. [...]

By |2020-06-10T10:47:53+10:00February 14th, 2020|Categories: Clinic News, Relationships|Tags: , , |Comments Off on Valentine’s Day: To Do or Not Do?
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Conscious Self Care: A Pathway to Better Love

A Tick-List Guide to Stress It’s been a while since I’ve written. That’s a reflection, mostly, around how busy my life has been.  A pretty familiar story I would suggest for many of us.  Kids, partner, work, mess, backyard, bins…life… the usual suspects. As I approach having some time off for the school holidays I find myself in a kind of mania.  It’s like I need to have everything ‘ticked off’ to feel like “now I can relax”.  Of course, the list seems endless and my usual modus operandi is to override my bodies signals to ‘rest up’.  You can imagine this usually never ends well in terms of [...]

By |2020-06-10T10:52:46+10:00January 11th, 2020|Categories: Clinic News|Tags: , |Comments Off on Conscious Self Care: A Pathway to Better Love
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