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Author: Leila Gracie

What no one ever tells you about ‘love’

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When people talk about long-term relationships, they tend to tell you the negative stuff: like losing the ‘spark’, […]

Leila Gracie August 25, 2018 Relationships, Uncategorized

People who are vile and what to do about them

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Nasty people really spoil everything. They bring such misery and suck the goodness out of the world like […]

Leila Gracie July 27, 2018 Living & believing, Psychological wellbeing, Things we believe, Uncategorized

Faith and why being good for God won’t work

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What is faith? Faith is kind of trying to make yourself believe something is true/real, even if you […]

Leila Gracie July 4, 2018 Living & believing, Things we believe, Uncategorized

Fighting your demons: How to have a conversation with yourself and why truth is the antidote

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There are two types of suffering. One is the result of circumstances, like when we lose someone, having […]

Leila Gracie June 15, 2018 Living & believing, Things we believe, Uncategorized

The key to understanding ghosting? Stop trying to understand it…

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In the world of dating and ‘courtship’, where we make ourselves so vulnerable and the stakes are so […]

Leila Gracie June 8, 2018 Courtship, Relationships, Uncategorized

School bullying: how do we ever get over the past?

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Stories of bullying are one of the saddest things. And bullying can be almost as painful for the […]

Leila Gracie June 1, 2018 Living & believing, Psychological wellbeing, Uncategorized

Don’t be nice, be honest: it is healthy and it is good

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Niceness is like an infectious disease. People see other people being nice and they think ‘I’m not half […]

Leila Gracie May 30, 2018 Living & believing, Things we believe, Uncategorized

Stepping up to the role of carer: the greatest gift a parent can give

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On Sunday in Starbucks a man appeared on the table beside me carrying a whingeing, sullen four-year-old. Once […]

Leila Gracie April 30, 2018 Equality & identity, Uncategorized

Live your life the best you can: 6 questions you should be asking yourself

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I don’t think being morbid is such a bad thing. We should remind ourselves every day that life […]

Leila Gracie April 13, 2018 Living & believing

Don’t fit in? Beware the label – you might just be normal

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I watched the Channel 4 documentary, ‘Are you autistic?’. I found it very interesting and certainly a worthy […]

Leila Gracie April 6, 2018 Living & believing, Psychological wellbeing

Heaven, spooks and a psychic called Sue: why the real answers are found through the things we CAN know

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I can’t know if there are such things as God, heaven, ghosts and aliens. So, the question of […]

Leila Gracie April 4, 2018 Living & believing, Things we believe, Uncategorized

How to cope with being alone (and why being in a relationship isn’t the answer)

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A friend tells a story of how as a child, if he dared utter the words ‘I’m bored’, […]

Leila Gracie March 31, 2018 Relationships, Uncategorized

Living in misery: how our idea of happiness could be doing us more harm than good

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When I was a teenager, me and my friend Kate used to hang out and be miserable. It […]

Leila Gracie March 22, 2018 Uncategorized

How to deal with being wronged and why karma is real

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When dating, I used to get so mad because I suspected that some men were serial womanisers (for […]

Leila Gracie March 9, 2018 Living & believing, Things we believe

A mental breakdown can be a gift in disguise… but not all broken things can be fixed

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Most of us have some kind of mental health weak-spot. Some people are terribly lacking in confidence. Some […]

Leila Gracie February 18, 2018 Living & believing, Psychological wellbeing, Uncategorized

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