8 Ways To Achieve Work-Life Balance
Is work-life balance a myth? I’ve always believed that work and life can be balanced, but it comes down to understanding that it’s not trying to allocate equal time for each of your various tasks and activities. Work-life balance is a concept. It’s not a stack of balanced peddles in a zen garden or a […]
5 Keys To Breaking Bad Habits
Imagine how complex your day would be without habits? We’d have to consciously think about every little thing we did and keep constant focus on every single task. Exhausting! Your brain would implode. Well, it wouldn’t, but we’d be mentally exhausted. The purpose of habits is to assists us in our daily lives. Hence the […]
3 Ways To Cope With Rejection
We’ve all experienced the feeling of being disliked, overlooked, dismissed or ignored through various interactions or events in our life. I vividly remember that first pang of rejection. I was 6 years old. A school friend didn’t invite me to her “Barbie” birthday party. I was devastated when I found out. I didn’t dare ask […]
How to find life balance with a strong willed child
Strong willed children can be a bit of a phenomena. At least when I had my strong willed child it took me a while to figure out how I was going to parent him. Did you, or do you have a similar challenge? My first child was an easy going temperament child, who loved following […]
Why It’s Good To Get Angry
Do you think that anger gets a bad rap in today’s society? We are often told that anger can be incredibly destructive towards work or family relationships, can result in hurting a person’s reputation, and even affect our overall health and wellbeing. Anger can make the most sensible, and respectable person do the most crazy, […]
5 Ways To Fall Back In Love With Your Job
Are you in love with your job? Ten years ago I side stepped counselling and took on an admin job. I was going through a difficult divorce, and didn’t feel I had the robustness to see clients. I had planned to stay in that role for one year, but after 3 months I was dying to […]
What My Forty Year Old Self Taught Me
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you had a crystal ball, and could see one, two, five years into your future, and see what life would be like? What you’d be doing, how happy you’d be, where you’re living, who you’re with. Would save a whole lot of heartache, right? But what if you didn’t like […]
Welcoming The Divine Feminine
Women in their fifties have experienced a lot of changes. We were teenagers in the seventies during the feminist movement. In the eighties – the trend was toward androgyny – and this topic was even taught at University as part of Sociology. In the nineties, many of us had careers in the corporate sector and […]
Are You Both Stuck In A Boredom Rut?
[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”] Last year I met Susan, and she described to me what couples in their early thirties are experiencing, but not willing to share with their friends. Susan felt that her relationship with her […]
5 Simple Ways To Finish What You’ve Started
Many of us begin the New Year as enthusiastic self-starters with a plan to always finish what we’ve started. We’ve declared to ourselves that we will renovate the bathroom, write our first novel, or join a yoga/gym studio and go to it. However, after getting started, we find our interest begins to wane, our enthusiasm […]
