It’s reassuring that such an enormous outcry followed the news that Sarah Burge has been condoning – and in fact encouraging – her fifteen year old daughter to use Botox – the facial treatment that irons out all the kinds of wrinkles that come with life experience.

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Sunday the 14^th of March will merrily chime in another Mother’s Day and across the UK cards, gifts and greetings will be dispatched, celebrating the wonder and unconditional love of motherhood.

But who’s to say that Mother’s Day can’t be a time for romantic love too?

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A few days ago, out of the blue a coaching client of mine received the most seething, insulting email from a woman threatening her personally and implying she would ‘expose’ my clients integrity if my client went near ‘her’ man.  She didn’t sign her name (and I have my view on people who do that….) but my client knew who this woman was.

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From the moment of your conception your parents unconsciously imposed their dreams and ideals about how you would turn out to be.  Later on your teachers had imposed ideas about who you should be and what direction your life should take.  When you hit your teens, being desperate for acceptance and belonging, you accepted the ideals your peers had about how you should be.

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Celia Walden’s article this morning in the Telegraph about the book ‘In Praise of Older Women’ (by Stephen Vizinczey) covers the topic of older women who choose to take on ‘toy-boys’ as their partners.

Walden writes about the stigma still attached to women who decide to bridge the age gap and rightly defends a woman’s right to date whoever she pleases.

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The story of  Ashley Cole’s infidelity is everywhere in the news these days. When you see Cheryl Cole flashing her big beautiful smile across your television screens for the Loreal advertisement saying the firm’s catchphrase: “Because you’re worth it,” you just can’t help feeling sorry for her.

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One of my many single friends was complaining to me the other day about how hard it was to meet people and I made the mistake of suggesting a whole list of things he could be doing.  It was a mistake because he spent the whole time trying to convince me that every idea I suggested wasn’t going to work.

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The Cheryl and Ashley Cole story has been running for so long now that we’re all probably tired of hearing about it! After all, there’s only so much gossip an intelligent person can take – and if that hearsay and tittle-tattle is stretched over days, weeks and months, it’s hard to muster any interest at all.

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When a relationship ends you feel a bit bruised and battered.  You know what I’m talking about, whether you’ve been there once or whether you’ve been there many times.  Your self esteem plunges a few notches and you can be left feeling a bit of an emotional wreck.

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The paper on The Sexualisation of Young People that’s causing such intense discussion at the moment gives us a lot to think about, whatever your take on its findings.

Certainly, looking at the current liberal attitude to sexuality in the media – from seemingly harmless pop videos and the omnipresence of Katie Price to the availability of all kinds of material online – those of my generation have cause to worry about the kind of impact these influences might have on the younger generation.

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