by lucy-cavendish-counselling | Sep 25, 2017 | Uncategorised
There have been two times in my life when I’ve been a single mother; once when I was 31 with one child and then again, many years later, having had three more children. Both times I’ve been devastated and poleaxed at the ending of my relationships – breaking up is...
by lucy-cavendish-counselling | Aug 24, 2017 | Uncategorised
By Lucy Cavendish This time a year ago, I had no idea what was about to happen in my life. I was a single parent with four kids and dating a man I’d met three years previously through mutual friends. The first time we went out on a date, he took me to one of my most...
by lucy-cavendish-counselling | Jul 21, 2017 | Uncategorised
https://happiful.com/meet-the-agony-aunts-bel-mooney/ BEL MOONEY Who do you work for? My advice column appears every Saturday in the Daily Mail, over two pages, with a potential readership of around six million. It consists of two letters, a very personal side column...
by lucy-cavendish-counselling | Jul 3, 2017 | Uncategorised
It is a warm and sunny day and I find myself sitting on a beanbag in a light and airy room in a small Oxfordshire village. I have come here to take part in the second of four Pesso Boyden experiential days and, although I have been to one training day already,...
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...
