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Bottom of Form Healing after Betrayal – Is it Possible? Betrayal is a breaking of trust and goodwill in a relationship that can take a long time to heal from and can leave us changed forever.  It has broken marriages, ended long term friendships and created rifts in families that can span generations.  It can happen suddenly and leave us feeling shocked, as in the case of an exposed affair. Or it can happen over time, involving a series of lies or indiscretions that deteriorate trust and respect. Whether it’s our good friend, partner, work colleague, sibling or parent, many of us have experienced the specific wounding that is felt from betrayal.  How do we get betrayed?  Our betrayal could be caused through a broken promise, ...

Counteracting the Media Impact of Global Marketing on our Tweens Shushann Movsessian Teenage girls are especially vulnerable to the media – for starters, it is a critical time in their identity formation. Cognitively they are keenly aware of cultural standards and ideals and needing to ‘fit ‘within their social networks. At the same time, they are at a point of peak exposure to the media and its messages in all forms, while they are spending less time with their families.  ‘Most parents don’t realise how much their tween girls (and boys) are marketed to on TV, in magazines, and at shopping centre and fast food outlets, or how easy it is to collect their information, then feed it back to them in personalised ads. These girls are eas...

Jodie is the regional manger for a large clothing chain. At 38 life, on the whole, is pretty good, except for that constant gnawing feeling that she is missing her soul mate. She feels she is finally in a really good job that pays well and is very satisfying and diverse. She’s close to her mum and talks to her on the phone every week, has great friends, has finally saved enough to put a deposit on her own home. Like many women her age, she lives alone and coming home into her empty flat after a long day at work gives her a sharp tight, pang in the pit of her stomach. It’s a familiar feeling that she’s had for sometime now. She recognises it as loneliness. She sits down and turns the TV on and contemplates a glass of wine. Her reward, she...

Does the word, 'discipline' carry a lot of bad press for you as a parent?  Does it remind you of something used by controlling parents in the 50's who just didn’t get it?  Many parents of the millenium express the desire to be friends with their teens. That ideally behavioural issues diminish simply by having an open, mature and equal relationship with them. Is this a realistic desire given that parents often experience behavioural problems with their teens, and increasingly with their preteens? What to do when the boundaries and rules keep getting breached? How do you discipline your teen, particularly where issues of safety and welfare are concerned? How do you respond when she not only appears unappreciative of the difficulty ...

At puberty a girl begins to search in earnest for outside validation for her innermost hopes and dreams for herself as a young woman. When she doesn't find what she's looking for, or when she sees women making compromises that the males in her family or society are not asked to make, she quite naturally becomes angry, frightened or disappointed. That's part of the reason for adolescent rebellion.If her emotions aren't validated and redirected in a positive way, her disappointment, anger and anxiety may take any of the following routes depending upon her innate temperament:  expressed inwardly as depression, moodiness, or physical illness.  expressed outwardly in self destructive behaviour e.g. poor relationships, substance abuse. ...