Having secure and healthy relationships gives us meaning and enrich our lives deeply. Yet, we all know too well that relationships are not all sunshine and rainbows and can bring deep hurt and pain too. To nurture a relationship- in its various forms, is hard. However, you can take comfort that it is not all fate, but intentional effort so that we can securely attach to our partners and form a mutually intimate relationship.

School refusal is a common behaviour among children and youth of school-going age. While it is a behaviour, it would be helpful to reframe it as an emotional response to external stressor(s) and an underdeveloped capacity to regulate distress.