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...
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...
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:...
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...
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....
Back in 2012 I wrote this post about Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) which nicely forecasts my work with Justin Hancock on Enjoy Sex and...
This post is about a short essay by the existential psychiatrist, Victor Frankl, called The Case for Tragic Optimism. Frankl wrote this in 1984 as a postscript...
Over the summer of 2011 the Radio 4 show Thinking Allowed examined cultural shifts and changes in the home. Presenter Laurie Taylor took a number...
In Charles Dickens‘s classic festive story, A Christmas Carol (and in the Muppet version of same which is compulsory viewing in our house at this...
This long read covers what we know about mental health, and why I think that distinguishing between those who are, and are not, mentally ill,...
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© Meg-John Barker 2016
