Child Sleep: When Poor Sleep Changes Everything Else
Sleep is the silent pillar of child development. Poor sleep affects mood, attention, learning, and relationships — often without anyone making the connection.
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Are We Still a Real Couple? Signs That Closeness Has Quietly Slipped Away
Sharing a home, a table, daily life — without really finding each other anymore. How to recognise when a couple has drifted into comfortable but distant cohabitation.
Read article →Family Conflicts: Understanding What Goes Wrong to Better Address It
Family conflicts are inevitable. What matters is how they are navigated — and whether relationships emerge stronger or damaged from the experience.
Read article →Warning Signs in a Relationship: Gottman's 4 Behaviours That Predict Separation
John Gottman identified 4 behaviours that predict break-up with over 90% accuracy. Recognising them is the first step to understanding what damages a relationship — and what can still change.
Read article →What Makes a Relationship Last: The Foundations That Stand the Test of Time
The science of happy couples has identified the markers of lasting relationships. It isn't the absence of conflict — it's the quality of what happens between conflicts, day after day.
Read article →Couple warning signs: the 4 behaviours that predict a split
John Gottman identified 4 behaviours that predict a break-up with 90% accuracy. Knowing them means seeing what destroys a couple, and what can still change.
Read article →Demanding Parents: When Expectations Become a Burden for a Child
Parental demands can spur excellence or crush a child under the weight of performance. Understanding the difference changes everything.
Read article →Talking About Sex as a Couple: Why It Is Hard and Why It Matters
Most couples never really talk about their sex life, not for lack of desire but because it is one of the hardest subjects to raise.
Read article →Should I Leave My Relationship? What the Question Reveals Before You Look for an Answer
The question 'should I leave?' doesn't always demand an immediate answer. It reveals something about the state of the relationship — and that is where to start.
Read article →Eco-Anxiety in Teenagers: When Worry for the Planet Invades Daily Life
Eco-anxiety is increasingly affecting teenagers. It can range from healthy concern to paralysing distress — learning to tell the difference is essential.
Read article →Eco-Anxiety in Teenagers: When Worry About the Planet Takes Over
Eco-anxiety affects more and more teenagers. It ranges from healthy concern to paralysing distress, and learning to tell them apart really helps.
Read article →Emotional Eating in Children: When Food Becomes a Response to Emotions
Eating to manage emotions often begins in childhood. Identifying this pattern early allows us to help children find other ways of navigating their inner states.
Read article →Emotional Eating in Children: When Food Answers Feelings
Eating to manage emotions often starts in childhood. Spotting this pattern early helps guide a child towards other ways of handling inner states.
Read article →Emotional Infidelity: Recognising When a Friendship Becomes Something Else
Emotional infidelity involves no physical act, but can destabilise a relationship as much as sexual infidelity. Where is the line, and how do you recognise it?
Read article →Emotional Intelligence in Children: A Skill That Changes Everything
Emotional intelligence — recognising, understanding and managing emotions — is a powerful predictor of wellbeing and success in relationships. It develops from childhood.
Read article →Emotional Maturity: What It Really Means and Why It Matters in Relationships
Emotional maturity has nothing to do with age. It defines the ability to love without losing oneself, to navigate conflict without fleeing it, and to remain responsible for one's own feelings.
Read article →Emotional Questioning: When You Doubt Your Own Feelings in a Relationship
Doubting your feelings for your partner is a deeply unsettling experience. This questioning can come from very different places — and deserves to be understood rather than ignored.
Read article →Emotional Regulation in Children: Learning to Live with Inner States
Emotional regulation doesn't come naturally. It is learned progressively, with adult support — and depends largely on the emotional model those around the child provide.
Read article →Emotional Wounds in a Relationship: How to Recognise Them and What They Change
An overreaction, an unexplained distance, recurring fears — emotional wounds from the past quietly shape how we love. Here is what to look for.
Read article →Emotional Wounds in a Relationship: Recognising Their Impact
An overreaction, an unexplained distance, fears that keep returning: past emotional wounds often slip into a relationship before we see them coming.
Read article →Over 1900 applied psychology articles
The Psychologie et Sérénité blog features over 1900 articles written by Gildas Garrec, CBT psycho-practitioner in Nantes. Each article draws on validated psychological models (Gottman, Young, attachment theory, CBT) to offer practical insights.
Couple communication — Gottman's 4 horsemen, 5:1 ratio, stonewalling, NVC
Attachment — Anxious, avoidant, disorganized styles, path to secure attachment
Emotional dependency — 10 signs, self-assessment tests, CBT strategies
Ghosting & dating — Ghosting, breadcrumbing, curving, orbiting, zombieing
Manipulation — Gaslighting, coercive control, narcissistic abuse
Infidelity — Understanding, forgiveness, trauma bonding, recovery
Anxiety & stress — Relationship anxiety, burnout, rumination, insomnia
Jealousy — Pathological, retrospective, social media jealousy
Breakup & grief — 7 stages, no contact, relationship PTSD
Couple & cohabitation — Moving in, arguments, libido, mental load
Parenting — Parental alienation, co-parenting, blended families
Young's schemas — 18 early maladaptive schemas, cognitive distortions
Dating apps — Mental health impact, paradox of choice, dating fatigue
Mental health — When to consult, online therapy, CBT vs EMDR
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