by lucy-cavendish-counselling | Jun 25, 2017 | Uncategorised
SINGLE MOTHERHOOD IS EASIER I am sitting with my friend Annabel having dinner together, our eldest sons, hers aged 13, mine15, are at the table. They are talking away to each other discussing the latest films to come out. Annabel and I are watching them. Then Annabel...
by lucy-cavendish-counselling | Jun 20, 2017 | Uncategorised
I remember, when I was ten years old, my parents separated. A year later – possibly earlier, I can’t really remember – I was introduced to my father’s new partner. I didn’t know what to do – hug her? Hit her? In the end I think I did neither, just nodded. I...
by lucy-cavendish-counselling | Jun 12, 2017 | Uncategorised
Imagine this scenario; your best friend, your best friend in the whole wide world, someone you have loved and cherished for quite some time, suddenly has a massive stroke of good fortune. How would you feel? There you have both been, coping with life’s ups and downs,...
by lucy-cavendish-counselling | May 31, 2017 | Uncategorised
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/times2/why-i-wont-spy-on-my-children-zvtg2t56z The other day I was out having a coffee with friends. We all have teenage children and we all share the same worries and concerns that any other parent has around their teenage children....
by lucy-cavendish-counselling | May 25, 2017 | Uncategorised
Sisters. Sisters. There were never such devoted sisters. That’s how the Irving Berlin songs goes and, when I was little, I remember sitting on the sofa, watching White Christmas, and gazing up adoringly at my older sister Nicola and thinking that song was written...
