Author: J. Broad

We continue our focus on relationships and our need for human connection; And, this is the second of our articles on family relationships. This time out we bring our focus to sibling relationships. Research has shown that just having a sibling is linked to an increased positive effect on our feelings. I wonder how you… Continue reading 5 Minute Therapies: Family – Sibling Relationships

In the final 2 posts on tier 3 of the hierarchy of needs we've been referring to we will tackle the often thorniest of our relationships and connections: That of family. I will divide this up into 2 article. The first will cover parent/child relationships and the second article, which will follow next week, will… Continue reading 5 Minute Therapies: Family – Child & Parent

One of the most distressing experiences we may endure in life is that of losing someone close to us. For me, nothing comes quite so close to highlighting our basic human need for connection with others than when we gain life and lose it - that is to say, when we first begin life ourselves… Continue reading 5 Minute Therapies: Relationships & Loss

It’s a terribly sad state of affairs that we even need to consider this in the context of relationships where love, care & consideration are meant to guide our treatment of each other. When we think of domestic abuse we typically imagine physical, perhaps also sexual, violence carried out by a male on a female… Continue reading 5 Minute Therapies: Relationships & Abuse

“It wasn’t always like this…” I always find it so sad when I hear an individual say something like this when talking about their relationship. It speaks of a yearning for a time when the love that people once shared made life wonderful & fulfilling. And yet, somewhere along the way, it began to slip… Continue reading 5 Minute Therapies: Relationships And Partners