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How to survive Christmas with your family and in-laws
'You don't want to be the one who gets blamed for ruining Christmas this year.' Photo: Getty Images Analysis: Christmas is the ultimate pressure cooker for families, couples and individuals with so much stress to have a picture-perfect season George Michael's Last Christmas is festively Dickensian in its evocations of Christmas past, present and future.
Soulmates: 'the most dangerous concept in dating since apps'
Analysis: The notion of the soulmate reflects a persistent burning to stash fictions into our fantasies of love Wuthering Heights, the immortal novel that troubled generations of Leaving Cert students, continues to disturbingly haunt cultural notions of love, obsession, and that tall, dark, brooding 'One' where "whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same". Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight saga was inspired by, and consistently references, Wuthering Heights.
How to survive Christmas with your family and in-laws
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Does 'whining' really make you happier?
Analysis: Does misery really like company so much that we might enjoy being miserable? Let's take a closer look By Ray O'Neill, Dublin City University A problem shared is a problem halved. Research by that only 29% of adults share their worries, but of these 36% feel brighter as a result; 26% feel relief having confided in someone, and 8% feel that the problem recedes once shared.
Why Whining Might Actually Make You Happier
Motortion Films/Shutterstock A problem shared is a problem halved. Research by that only 29% of adults share their worries, but of these 36% feel brighter as a result; 26% feel relief having confided in someone, and 8% feel that the problem recedes once shared. Both the Sun and Daily Mail newspapers recently highlighted research by Southwest University in Chongqing, China, which asked a similar question in relation to teenagers: are they happier the more they “co-ruminate”.
Does ‘whining’ really make you happier? A therapist gives his verdict
By Ray O'Neill, Assistant Professor in Psychotherapy, Dublin City University A problem shared is a problem halved. Research by that only 29% of adults share their worries, but of these 36% feel brighter as a result; 26% feel relief having confided in someone, and 8% feel that the problem recedes once shared. Both the Sun and Daily Mail newspapers recently highlighted research… Read complete article © The Conversation -
Does ‘whining’ really make you happier? A therapist gives his verdict
A problem shared is a problem halved. Research by that only 29% of adults share their worries, but of these 36% feel brighter as a result; 26% feel relief having confided in someone, and 8% feel that the problem recedes once shared. Both the Sun and Daily Mail newspapers recently highlighted research by Southwest University in Chongqing, China, which asked a similar question in relation to teenagers: are they happier the more they “co-ruminate”.
Relationships
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Poll: Have you decorated your house for Halloween?
We’re less than a week off from the scariest night of the year. Share Tweet Email Image: Shutterstock/Derick Hudson WE’RE LESS THAN a week out from the scariest night of the year. Halloween will look somewhat different this year but there’s nothing stopping us breaking out the box of decorations, throwing on a witch’s hat and doing up the outside of the house.
Poll: Will you stay up to watch the US election?
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Time for baking bread: Try seeded loaf and Guinness and treacle bread from The Cake Cafe
DURING THE FIRST lockdown I spent days trying to figure out how we could get through this horrendous time as a business. The doors had been shut for weeks and there was no revenue coming in, with the bills still piling up. We had always been renowned for not only our cakes (the clue’s in the name!) but for our savoury food which we make fresh each day including three types of bread and a selection of cakes each morning.
Breakfast time? Try these carrot and walnut pancakes, courtesy of The Cake Cafe and SLICE
IT WAS MONDAY 9 March and I began reading more and more about this deadly virus, Covid-19 and how it was about to hit our shores and affect every person, young and old. We quickly had to try and figure out what we could do within the businesses to stop the spread. We stopped taking keep cups in the cafes and tried to minimise our contact with customers as much as possible, something that we are so used to now, but at the beginning of all of this, it was a strange and unfamiliar position to be in.
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