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...

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...

To be described as natural and innocent in speech and/or behaviour because we are young or inexperienced is what we also call being NAÏVE. Forrest Gump the movie was a beautiful portrayal of a pure an...

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...

“Love is an irresistible DESIRE to be irresistibly DESIRED” … Robert Frost advises. Heartfelt DESIRE grows deeper, more personal and privately beautiful as we mature. Our deepest DESI...

“There are no GUARANTEES from the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough.  From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.” An anonymous quote about GUARANTEES, that is brilliant in its simpli...

“We are what we repeatedly do, therefore excellence, then is not an act, but a HABIT” …..   Aristotle I got to thinking during the sacred hours of dawn that I love so much, how our HABITS, y...

Our MORALS are ours alone to create and uphold as we mature. They are not something we are born with; they are something we learn like good manners. Our heart’s palate develops through trial and error...

Bloody hell, I get so IMPATIENT with IMPATIENT people! So for me to actually remain an adult and be patient with IMPATIENT people well … that takes real emotional muscle. I am still a work in pr...