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When life gets tricky, remember these three rules:

1. Loads of pastries consumed with a cuppa tea will leave you feeling much bigger, but much better

2. You always need friends no matter what. Call in slightly unannounced like I did (I texted 15 minutes before I arrived! ), then watch as Noelle answers the door in her trendy bathrobe, and even from the depths of startled surprise, welcomes me enthusiastically with Noel in the background smiling broadly and shaking off his morning yawns.

3. Talk girl/boy talk like your life depends on it and get all your junk out.

Follow this with a big lie down on the couch and a meditation which Rachel found somewhere on the internet which is spoken by a man with an urgently hypnotic voice. You’ll emerge feeling lighter, happier and very very good about yourself.