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Expertise
Creating work/life balance. Negotiating a team approach within the family with shared responsibilities. How to balance achievement, relaxation and leisure and to know when you have found the formula which works in your home.
Experience in the area
I run a busy consultancy as a personal develeopment coach and child psychologist. At home I have an equally busy partner and am a step parent.
Education/Credentials
Chartered Psychologist
What do you like about this subject?
Balancing our responsibilitie is a challenge for everyone. I don't claim to always get it right but I do try and am willing to share my experience. A problem shared lightens the load.
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Recent Answers from Jeni Hooper
2012-04-24 Factors considering for having a second child.:
I wish you and your family a good life whatever you decide and whatever fortune brings your way. A very personal decision like this needs to come from the heart. We may try to apply logic but our intuition
2011-03-21 feeling drained:
Hi Al, You are doing something very worthwhile but not easy. Hope and optimism are what sustain wellbeing and people who need therapeutic support have often become stuck in a negative spiral where hope
2011-01-24 mental conflict:
Many young people whatever their culture want to be more independent and to have some autonomy over their lives. This is a natural feeling and one that often conflicts with family who want to take care
2010-07-01 Young adult struggeling between home responsibility and career and life outside:
Hi Amanda, I am sorry to hear that your mum is unwell, she must be proud of your willingness to help her. However you must also prepare for the future so that you are able to get work throughout your
2010-05-30 Home sickness:
Hello Mohamed, Firstly can I say that homesickness is both normal and healthy and is not cowardly at all. Because this is such an important question for many young people all over the world I would
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