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Living alone and depression

  • by Meg-John Barker
  • 25 March
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A Finnish study last week reported that people who live alone have an 80% increased risk of depression compared to those who live in families....
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Shame and vulnerability

  • by Meg-John Barker
  • 20 March
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This is a very interesting talk following up Brené Brown‘s presentation last year on vulnerability. We are vulnerable about things that risk exposing us in...
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‘Same-sex’ marriage

  • by Meg-John Barker
  • 12 March
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On March 11th a letter from two Archbishops was read out in 2,500 Catholic Churches in the UK arguing against proposed changes to make marriage...
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Becoming a woman: The gender theories of Simone de Beauvoir

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  • 8 March
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March 8th marks International Women’s Day. I would like to take the opportunity here to celebrate one of my own favourite feminists, Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986). I will...
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What is happiness and is it something useful to strive for?

  • by Meg-John Barker
  • 3 March
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Bo Jacobsen‘s paper What is happiness? The concept of happiness in existential psychology and therapy, was published in the journal Existential Analysis in 2007. Here...
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Doing Valentine’s Day Differently

  • by Meg-John Barker
  • 13 February
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On Valentine’s day my youngest sister sends cards to seven of her friends, some of whom are single and some in relationships. She’s been doing...
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Mindful academia

  • by Meg-John Barker
  • 20 January
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I wrote this post with Steven Stanley back in 2012 Rosalind Gill has recently spoken out about the secrecies and silences which exist about the...
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Enduring Love?

  • by Meg-John Barker
  • 18 January
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A post from 2012 announcing the launch of the Enduring Love? Project. I ended up publishing a self-help book based on this project in 2016:...
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Smartphones, mindful phones?

  • by Meg-John Barker
  • 10 January
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A 2012 post about whether it’s possible to engage with smartphones mindfully. Along with my very recent arrival in the world of social networking I...
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Heffalumps and Conflicts

  • by Meg-John Barker
  • 6 January
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I was recently very flattered to be asked to write a guest post for the wonderful blog Treasury Islands, which is all about children’s literature....
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