Migraine with aura: what happens in the brain during aura
Aura is a wave that slowly travels across the cortex. How to recognise it, when to call 112 straight away, and what to do with the fear it leaves behind.
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When a colleague you leaned on leaves
A colleague leaving is a loss without a ritual. Roles nobody ever wrote down leave with them — and the system will hand them to someone. How to grieve at work and…
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Nannies and children: when others help raise your child
When your child runs crying to the nanny instead of you, it doesn’t mean they love you less. What attachment research says about children raised by several people.
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Sex during pregnancy: what changes and what to talk about
Pregnancy changes the body, desire and the relationship. What is common, which fears keep couples apart, how the partner experiences it, and why questions about safety belong with your gynaecologist.
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Chest pain that isn't your heart: when the results are normal but the fear stays
Your heart has been checked and it's fine, yet your chest still tightens. Where non-cardiac chest pain can come from, why it keeps returning and what psychotherapy can do.
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The coach as a parent: when the relationship is more than professional
A coach can be a secure base or someone who controls everything. On attachment, power and dependence in the coach–athlete relationship — and how to tell when closeness has become unsafe.
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The first ninety days in a new team: why it is more emotionally draining than you expect
A new job wears you out by evening even though you have barely done anything. Why: you are entering a system with unwritten rules, roles and the question of whether you are…
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Assisted reproduction and its emotional cost
Treatment isn't a single procedure but a cycle that repeats. What assisted reproduction does to your body, your time and your sense of control, why the two-week wait is so hard, and…
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Corridor politics: how conflict in the leadership team affects your health
A dispute that isn't yours, yet you take it home. How tension in a leadership team creates triangles, why the body takes it seriously and how to step out of the peacemaker…
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Dating after divorce: how to know you're not just running away
First dates after divorce: where the fear comes from, what to say about your divorce, when the children meet someone, and how to tell running away from taking a step.
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