How to Include Your Family Values into the Sex Talks

How to Include Your Family Values into the Sex Talks

In the recent past, I have written about topics relating to body positivity in teens and tweens, puberty and 'the talk'. Today, continuing on that theme, we have a guest post by Kathleen Hema - a sex education teacher and public health lecturer. Kathleen Hema has lectured at universities in the USA & Australia, presented [...]

How to connect and form friendships as an expat – Top Tips

How to connect and form friendships as an expat – Top Tips

Author: Ann Grandchamp, Mental Health Editor An expat is a person who lives outside his or her own country. Pretty simple and basic, as definitions go. Most expats don't plan on living in their host country long term. They are usually there for work, for a limited amount of time. Sometimes however, the situation can [...]

How to beat Ms. Overwhelmed

How to beat Ms. Overwhelmed

Author: Ann Grandchamp, Mental Health Editor One of the most common issues my clients deal with is the feeling of overwhelmed. And what are overwhelmed people really really good at (re)producing? Complexity. The art of complexification is to make things complicated when they are actually quite simple. They don't do it on purpose, of course. [...]

Staycation Drama: Tips to Ensure a Stress-Free Family Vacation

Staycation Drama: Tips to Ensure a Stress-Free Family Vacation

Author: Ann Grandchamp, Mental Health Editor Let me demonstrate to you that mental health professionals don't always have it worked out and together. Ever since coming back to Switzerland in 2017, we've chosen to stay home and enjoy the lakeside and go away by the sea in October when the weather is starting to get [...]