It’s great to be in the driving seat throttling forward in life, Christmas season madness included, but could this be having a negative effect on your love life?

Work stops. Shops close. People travel home. It's not always easy. So what draws us back to difficult families and tricky days at this time of year?

Nicola Morgan's Heartsong Christmas

Old Saint Nick seems to have different rules for different families....

I was running some seminars over the summer and asked the audience what other topics they would want to hear about. A few people mentioned break-ups, how to deal with them, but also how to go about it. Here I explore why it's difficlut to do.

It is easy to be glib about money and say that it does not matter, but of course it does. It frees us from the tyranny of others and allows us to enjoy rich and diverse experiences. However to follow the theme of Decembers issue of Psychologies magazine, money is not in and of itself enough to make us happy.

A stroll around Edinburgh M and S was the inspiration for this post

A Mother's Pride...

Just because you aren't struck by the lightning rod of love, doens't mean it isn't 'something'...

Every family is different. In fact I think we all perhaps believe that our own family is the oddest or most unique. We are led to believe everyone else's looks like they do on the TV adverts when they are smiling at each other from over the top of a cereal box!

We all have courage. Rather than acquiring it, we need to cultivate it.

Looking at the first dating roadblock. A follow on from the article and webinar of the same name (August Issue).

Nicola Morgan, author of The Teenage Guide to Stress and Blame My Brain - The Amazing Teenage Brain Revealed, among other books, shows teenagers and parents how to deal with exam results that are not what you'd hoped

Do you sometimes feel like you're never going to get this juggling act of parenting, work and life right? Do you keep reading and gaining more information but get stuck in applying it? This post is about simple wisdom from a beautiful soul who cared enough to help me when I was struggling. It's the kind of wisdom that I feel needs passing on with loving kindness to all parents who spin plates and sometimes feel alone .

Following on from her last post, Nicola Morgan continues her job-hunting advice for young people

Do not take your existing relationship for granted. Get it up to date with these nine funky research-based tips!

Lad's Mags are disappearing and rebranding .. Thanks to Women's Groups

There has been much media coverage of violence against women and misogyny in the UK press of late. All to the good, prompting hopes that at last a backlash is underway against the unequal treatment of women. I’ve posed the question several times: what can we do?