Tenderness

  “Without TENDERNESS a man is uninteresting” I agree with Marlene Dietrich’s statement, but the same goes for females too in my world. Without TENDERNESS, human beings become insensitive creatur...

Home

  Running away from HOME can be done in our own house. Our emotional house is our own body. Our physical house is where we cohabitate with pets, people or sometimes just by ourselves. A house is ...

Kindness

  Animals have got the skill for consistent KINDNESS nailed if you ask me. When we are grumpy, dismissive, away for too long or too busy KINDNESS is not easy for us humans to respond with. Pets a...

Sunday Sabotage

  Some of us use any form of emotional sedation we can on SUNDAYS. Maybe we need to quell the anxiety of either too much alone, couple or family time during the weekend hitting emotional overload...

Our Body

  Are you good friends with your BODY or unhappy with your current relationship with it? How do you feel about your BODY? Has it let you down often, or do you let it down often? Those among us wh...

Assertive

  ASSERTIVNESS is not what you do, it is a discipline and maturity that creates who and how you are. When we are aggressive we shame others. When we are submissive we shame ourselves. When we are...

Worry

  Fear looks back, WORRY looks down, love looks up and smiles. Of course there will always be dilemmas in life that need our attention. However, habitual WORRY is driven by fear-based thought. Wh...

Walls

  Her heart was a secret and beautiful garden, but the walls were very high, too high for anyone else to enter and enjoy with her. She had trapped herself. Sound like anyone you know? One of our ...

Separation

  Forget what hurt you, but never forget what it taught you. If arguments, conflict, worry, disappointment and fear have been visiting our lives we can take heart as we are still on track. A matc...

Secrets

  We are only as sick as the SECRETS we keep. This is a mantra reminding us that the shame in keeping SECRETS long term will make us sick. These words are repeated often to those like me recoveri...