This post explores the importance of gratitude for mental health and well-being, and the limitations of taking an individualistic approach towards saying ‘thank-you’. The original...
Open relationships: Applying the concept of openness to all relationships in various ways. Content warning: relationship conflict and abusive relationships are touched on briefly in...
Since Rewriting the Rules was published I sometimes get asked to do email interviews with journalists on various topics. Some of these get published in an edited...
Yesterday I ran some training on relationship therapy for counsellors which involved exploring various different approaches and techniques. I was reminded of a chapter that...
All this week the Open University Social Sciences Faculty is running its Student Connections Conference: A range of online talks and discussions on a wide...
This month I was asked to contribute to the series that Photoworks has been doing on Queer Representations. This is a series of commissioned texts...
Happy holidays from Rewriting the Rules. A great present for me was that my TEDx talk from the Brighton 2013 event has now been edited...
Something that has been a live issue for me recently – both in my own life and in conversations with friends – is how we...
Following my last post I’m very pleased to report that, on Friday, I was the proud recipient of the Erotic Award in the academic category....
I came across a great example this morning in a paper by my friend and colleague Trevor Butt which I thought could be very usefully...