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Ask Kim: I’m Being Bullied At Work. What Do I Do?
SHESAID resident psychologist Kim Chartres answers your most awkward and confronting questions. Dear Kim, I just started a new job a few months ago and despite the fact it’s doing what I’ve always...
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How Accepting You’re A Bad Mother Can Set You Free
Because sometimes the worst labels are actually the best. While I wouldn’t call myself a terrible mother I certainly wouldn’t say I’m a perfect one either. God knows I’ve tried. When my kids were...
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Ask Kim: Should I Dump My Friend?
SHESAID resident psychologist Kim Chartres answers your most awkward and confronting questions. Dear Kim, I’ve been friends with the same woman for ten years, but in the past few years the friendship...
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The Important Message My Son Taught Me About Men
It’s not easy growing up in a world that won’t accept weakness. We all know men are different from women, yet from my experience raising sons I think many of the differences, particularly relating to...
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Ask Kim: Should I Quit My Job?
SHESAID resident psychologist Kim Chartres answers your most awkward and confronting questions. Dear Kim, I just started a new job but it’s nothing like I thought it would be. It’s not that the work...
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Why My Children Don’t Get Politically Correct Christmas Gifts
What’s in a toy? When my boys were little, I gave them toy guns and water pistols for Christmas. The kind of gifts that summon instant tsk-tsking from onlookers convinced I’m on a mission to instill...
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Ask Kim: Should I Sleep With My Flatmate?
SHESAID resident psychologist Kim Chartres answers your most awkward and confronting questions. Dear Kim, I’ve lived with a guy for the past six months and while our relationship has always been...
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Spending Two Years Away From My Kids Made Me A Better Mum
Leaving my boys with their father was the hardest thing I’d ever do in my life. I’ve always been a really hands on mother. I chose to stay home instead of returning to work, ran the local playgroup...
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Ask Kim: Should I Tell My Best Friend I Slept With Her Ex?
SHESAID resident psychologist Kim Chartres answers your most awkward and confronting questions. Dear Kim, My best friend broke up with her boyfriend of five years about a year ago. Recently I ran into...
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Here’s What Really Happens To Your Body After You Give Birth
What happens to your body and your mind after you leave the hospital? Doctors and fellow parents are good for the most part at prepping you for the challenges of pregnancy and childbirth. I was...
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Ask Kim: How Do I Get Out Of My Family Christmas Dinner?
SHESAID resident psychologist Kim Chartres answers your most awkward and confronting questions. Dear Kim, Every year my extended family all get together for a big dinner, but it’s always fraught with...
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The Truth About Breastfeeding
Breast isn’t always best. Breastfeeding may be a natural way to feed an infant, but to many mothers, it’s anything but. From my son’s first moments of life, midwives swiftly attached him to my breast...
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How Becoming A Mother Changes You
I’m not the same person I was. Being a mother was always on my agenda. So newly wed and keen to start a family, I fell pregnant at the tender age of 22. Looking back, I was so young and naive and...
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Ask Kim: Am I Having An Emotional Affair?
SHESAID resident psychologist Kim Chartres answers your most awkward and confronting questions. Dear Kim, I’ve been getting quite close to a male colleague of mine recently. For the past year we’ve...
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How Mothers’ Guilt Has Become An Ugly Status Symbol
It’s cool to feel crummy about yourself. Before married women went out to work like their male counterparts, our primary objective was looking after our homes. As soon as we got hitched, we quit our...
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Ask Kim: Is He Just Not That Into Me?
SHESAID resident psychologist Kim Chartres answers your most awkward and confronting questions. Dear Kim, I’ve gone on a few dates with a guy I met online who I really like, but I’m not sure if he...
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Why I Kept My Friend’s Abusive Husband’s Secret For 20 Years
I knew something was wrong, but I walked away. No one ever really knows what goes on behind closed doors in a relationship. We might hear our married neighbours arguing occasionally. If we’re unlucky,...
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I Didn’t Believe In Haunted Houses. Until I Lived In One.
What lies beneath? Life is full of unexplained phenomenon. Like the sock that disappears from your washing only to mysteriously reappear dangling from the clothes line weeks later, the person you bump...
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I Lost Weight And It Destroyed My Marriage
My dress size dwindled, and so did my relationship. When I got married, I weighed 130 kilos. I’d been ‘big’ all my life, but at the time I had no idea just how much my weight had influenced who I was....
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The Day I Realised My Father Was A Narcissist
I finally saw him for who he was. Most people have two very different personas. The one they cheerfully present to the world, and the one only revealed to a select few closest to them. But my father’s...
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