By Tammy Epstein, Educational Psychologist at PsychMatters Family Therapy Centre Have you ever wondered if smacking damages your child emotionally? The short answer is yes. But, if you’re anything like me, you’ll want to know why. You may be thinking that you were...
How to keep the love, by Joanna Kleovoulou (Clinical Psychologist and Director) Once upon a time… lived Snow White with her seven dwarfs. Fast forward… And the prince found Snow White sleeping comatose for decades. He bent down on one knee, caressed her...
The ending of another year often leaves us feeling frantic to get to complete our over-extended to-do-lists, “wrapping” up of not only a long list of presents but also work responsibilities and family commitments. Before we can blink our eyelids, the...
Single parenting is not a new phenomenon, but rates are increasing worldwide. South Africa has the world’s highest rate of single parent households (over 60%). Single parents are the norm, not the exception. Typically, a SA child has a living, but absent, father, and...
Let’s start of by undertanding what self-esteem is – it’s the collection of beliefs and feelings that we have about ourselves which influences our motivations, attitudes, actions and affects how we adjust in the world. Patterns of self-esteem start...
By Dr. Debbie Norval from Skin Renewal, locoated on 9 Park Street,Bedfordview, Jhb. We’ve all heard the saying “beauty is not skin deep” and that if you feel good on the inside you will look good on the outside. But it’s not as simple as that in real life. In fact if...
