I was hesitant to record any video about the corona virus as there is so many people putting out opinions and I personally think there is too much noise and not enough hard facts around the situation. so I didn’t …

Discussing an estrangement is a very personal decision…some choose to talk publicly about it and others chose to keep it private and closed. 

Personally, I rarely talk about my own estrangement publicly as that’s my choice and my right to …

Something that has come up a few times the last few weeks in my client work is the topic of reconciliations, especially unexpected ones. Some of my clients are finding themselves in an unusual position where a reconciliation might be …

I speak a lot of the many experiences and difficulties of estrangement, but the one I come back the most often is the deep sense uncertainty because it is so consistent across everyone who I’ve spoken to. But why exactly …

There are many reasons why family relationships breakdown which might lead to estrangement but an obvious one is an inability to communicate effectively.

Similarly, there a lot of reasons why communication is poor, such as the general rules around communication within …

The media is rife at the moment with articles on the difficulty of going home to visit a dysfunctional (whatever that means to you) family over Christmas.  

You can find my latest contribution to one such article for the …

t was 4 am. Joan woke up as usual to check her phone. A chronic worrier, she was always on high alert, unable to relax for fear that something terrible might happen to someone in the family. This time she …