by Neil Wilkie | Apr 28, 2026 | News
The Art of Letting Go A Japanese Approach to Quieting the Overthinking Mind Some things — shikata ga nai – cannot be helped. And in that, there is peace. Why this matters Many of the people who come to us at Duo Coaching are not stuck because they think too...
by Neil Wilkie | Apr 27, 2026 | News
On the Brink What to do when the divorce papers are about to be filed — and you finally realise you don’t want this to be the end There is a moment that almost every relationship therapist will recognise. The phone rings, or an email lands, and on the other end is a...
by Neil Wilkie | Apr 25, 2026 | News
Rising Above the Mundane Why Your Relationship Needs More Strawberry the Donkey By Dr Neil Wilkie, Duo Coaching This morning, Gwen and I lay in bed and sang a song about a donkey called Strawberry. Strawberry is real. She lives at the Sidmouth Donkey Sanctuary, and we...
by Neil Wilkie | Apr 11, 2026 | News
It started with a simple question over breakfast: “Do you have a pen?” Which led, as the best questions often do, to something rather more interesting. Consider this: if you own one pen, you know exactly where it is. You notice when it’s running low....
by Neil Wilkie | Mar 4, 2026 | News
I’m sitting in the restaurant on the ferry from Saint-Malo to Portsmouth, tea going cold, watching couples walk past as we prepare to disembark. It’s become an accidental study in connection. Some walk side by side, shoulders almost touching, moving at the...
by Neil Wilkie | Feb 24, 2026 | News
There’s a pattern I see time and again in my work with couples. Two intelligent, capable people have been quietly unhappy for months — sometimes years — before they finally pick up the phone. Something has happened. A conversation that went too far, a silence...
