All i want for christmas?

Sara-Louise Ackrill’s autism makes the big celebrations difficult, so what is it like to avoid the traditional festivities?

Q‘I’m a 58-year-old divorced mum of two grown-up kids who are now in their twenties. Lovely kids. I adore them. But they both have partners now and don’t live with me and they don’t have kids yet. I’v

IT’S SO EASY TO GET CAUGHT UP IN TRYING TO ‘DO’ CHRISTMAS RIGHT THAT YOU END UP EXHAUSTED, OVERWROUGHT AND FEELING WRONG. TO FIND A BETTER BALANCE, MARIANNE POWER ASKED A NEUROSCIENTIST FOR ADVICE

There are some people who have munched halfway ...

DO YOU TAKE ON THE LION’S SHARE OF FESTIVE TASKS? I am very lucky – my husband is a thoroughly modern man. He cooks, takes out the bins and dotes on our kids. He even buys a lot of the presents. But I

STOP PEOPLE PLEASING