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Articles by Dr Sallee McLaren

I write these blogs to provide some assistance and insight into how we might deal with certain life events in order to get good outcomes.  The blogs are general in nature and are not intended to provide specific, individualised advice.  Still, there is often a core ‘truth’ in generalisations.

I hope you enjoy them!

Don’t Avoid Conflict, Just Behave Well During It

Most people believe that conflict must end in tears, rage or losing out.  This is why so many people avoid it, and either go over-the-top in their aggression (to force and intimidate others) or comply and go underground to manoeuvre others into doing what they want. This is regrettable because neither of the above strategies work well.  They both...

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Getting Men and Women on the same side

For all the ‘alleged’ and usually unsubstantiated differences argued to exist between women and men there are 1000-fold more similarities. Hostility, alienation and sense of ‘difference’ makes us even more alone in this often brutal, divisive world.   We see, men and women frequently screaming with fury at each other on social media because of...

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