When children experience affection and approval after success, they may begin to link achievement with personal worth. This Therapy Short explores parental conditional regard, perfectionism and the fear of disappointing others. It explains how parents can encourage effort and responsibility while ensuring their children feel valued when things go wrong.
How can you tell when your relationship is in trouble? Dr Nicholas Jenner draws on his experience as a therapist and relationship coach to explain seven recurring patterns, from emotional distance and fading affection to power struggles, contempt and jealousy. He offers practical ways to talk about what’s happening and begin rebuilding closeness and trust.
When your thoughts are going round in circles, a few minutes with nature can offer a change of focus. Dr Nicholas Jenner reflects on walking, gardening and paying attention to the seasons, and suggests ways to make space for nature in everyday life, even when green space is hard to reach.
Why do adult children go no contact with their parents? Explore the reasons behind family estrangement, including emotional neglect, unresolved conflict and differing family expectations. Discover why parents and children remember relationships differently, when cutting contact may be necessary, and whether damaged parent-child relationships can ever be repaired through understanding.
What does a coach in your pocket actually do? Explore how Awareness to Action helps you prepare a boundary, work through overwhelm and turn reflection into a manageable action, then review what happened. Available on iPhone and Android.
Why do you still feel responsible for your ex after separation? Discover how codependency, guilt, attachment patterns and emotional obligations can continue after a relationship ends. Learn why setting boundaries feels difficult, how to recognise unhealthy responsibilities and how to move forward without feeling responsible for your former partner's happiness.
When couples stop arguing, it doesn't always mean their relationship has improved. Sometimes, silence signals emotional withdrawal, resignation or relationship exhaustion. Explore why partners emotionally disconnect, how codependency and attachment patterns contribute, and whether a relationship can recover when one person has stopped trying to make things work.
Awareness to Action is now on iPhone and Android. Explore how describing a difficult decision, choosing a manageable action and reviewing the outcome can help reflection lead somewhere.
Awareness to Action is now available on the App Store and Google Play. See how the Boundary Room can help you prepare what to say, choose an action and review what happened.
How long should you wait for a partner to change? This article explores when patience becomes avoidance, why promises are different from sustained behavioural change, and how people can become attached to potential rather than evidence. Awareness matters, but healthier relationships eventually require action, boundaries and consistent responsibility from both partners.
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