“If we don’t manage stress properly, it can spiral into anxiety”
Family anxiety
here’s a point in mid-life when many of us are faced with juggling ageing parents with teenage children (all with our hormones on their own wild trajectory!), (Little, Brown, £14.99), says that one of the first things to acknowledge in any relationship is that you can’t change or control other people. ‘Even when you love someone and believe you know what’s best for them, you can’t control them. Ultimately, it’s up to you to choose how you handle what you can’t change about others.’ When you accept you can’t control someone and concentrate on you – how you respond, what you say, and what you do – it releases a pressure valve.
