What screws us up most in life is the picture in our fantasy of how life was supposed to be and how it was supposed to turn out. Those of us not emotionally supported through our first right of passag...

  Turning down the volume on the world at times is so necessary. God knows I personally need to do it more deliberately in the lead-up to the close of an old and commencement of a new day, week, ...

When we edit our truth for the approval of others we BETRAY ourselves. If we ignore the habit of self-BETRAYAL it eventually shows up in our relationships. When we pretend we are happy, that something...

Any time we face life challenges an opportunity for a New Day’s RESOLUTION presents itself. Some of us only ever take the time to consciously commit to making a RESOLUTION or an important promise to b...

“All things are DIFFICULT before they are easy.” Thomas Fuller reminds us that patience and self-compassion are necessary if we are seeking to learn new skills and experience new adventures in love an...

Emotional DEPRIVATION is a very real issue many adults silently battle to overcome. DEPRIVATION as a heart wound was first discussed by Dutch psychiatrist Dr Anna A. Terruwe in the 1950s. Way back the...

“Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise” … H.G. Wells puts sobriety and wisdom into a simple context that applies to all humanity, not just reco...

“If you can laugh together, you can WORK together”. Robert Orben reminds us that a happy heart is the key to true success in whatever we are WORKING on. Our WORK ethic in life reflects our relationshi...

Why not make somebody happier today simply by MINDING YOUR OWN BUSINESS? It is challenging when we are confronted with tolerating personality traits we find distasteful in others to remember to look f...

Most of us are not slow learners, we are just quick forgetters. REMINDING ourselves to remember to listen to and honour our innate truth is an art that does not come easily for some of us in our noisy...