“Be glad. Be good. Be brave!” It can feel so much more familiar for many of us to be sad, be mad and be afraid. I just love this quote from Eleanor H. Porter, simple but not always easy to be g...

  Sometimes saying “No” is the most helpful thing we can do for ourselves and others. However, it can be one of the hardest words to say without secretly feeling guilty or mean. When I take on fe...

  When someone else disrespects us behaving in a HEARTLESS way and shuts us out, it is tempting to do the same to them. It’s helpful to remember they are simply fearful thus closing off to ...

  COMPASSION brings us to a stop and in that moment our heart rises above our ego. If we deconstruct this sacred but too often misunderstood word COMPASSION we can check then improve our own Emot...

  When it feels like we keep emotionally falling over, losing our heart’s balance dealing with people or new situations, we are simply learning. Mastering our heart’s emotional centre of gravity ...

  We all experience those phases in our lives when we seem to be going through processing a shitload of fear. It is hard work to not give in to it and just give up on love. It’s a living HELL act...

  “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” What an important reminder from Maya Angelou. Picking up tormenting WHAT IF thoughts when life gets challenging can be as addictive as picking up a dri...

  Hungry? Angry? Lonely? Tired? The simple H.A.L.T. system has been used by addiction-recovery circles for many, many years. Why? Because it works so very well in helping anyone regain emotional ...

  “Without FORGETTING, it is quite impossible to live at all” … Friedrich Nietzsche’s words ring true for me. I used to believe this word FORGETTING meant denying, minimising and pretending. I am...

  We can either plant PREFERENCE trees or grow ”expectation” bushes in our heart’s garden. When dealing with life’s challenges either plant may provide fruit, however, the “expectation” bush requ...