I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
-D. H. Lawrence
In love, as in life, we were meant to be ‘wild’ - to be free and untamed. But too often, we find ourselves in the throes of some [...]
During an interaction, one way to know if you are sticking up for yourself to try and observe what you are paying attention to. Are you paying attention to how you are feeling or to how the other person might feel? If it is the former, then you are on the right track.
Too often, our [...]
This is one question that I had for a very long time up until recently, when I started participating in more advanced emotional therapies. Is it possible to love yourself when you’ve had little or no modelling of it, especially during your childhood years when you most needed it? The answer, I have found out, [...]
When we think of the word commitment, it conjures up in our minds the thought of being irrevocably bound in thought and act to some cause or some promise. We make a pact with ourselves or with an ‘other’ about a certain thing or a certain course of action that we will take and we [...]
One of the lectures in the EFT World Series tackled on relationships. One of the questions there that got my attention was “Are you functioning at a level of self-care in your relationships?”
Too often, in relationships, we tend to give ourselves up. We feel pain when we perceive the other as not taking care of [...]
There is a notion that praise is generally good for other people’s well-being. However, praise can actually be counterproductive if it causes the person to attach their worth and self-image to it. Below is an article from Dr. Margaret Holmes that I would like to invite you to read.
What Praise Helps and What Praise Harms?
There [...]
In Mike George’s book 1,001 Meditations, a meditation entitled ‘Rock in the River’ is mentioned. This is particularly great if you have a small kid. What you do is you sit on the floor and then you invite your child to sit on your lap. You then spend at least five minutes in silence, together.You [...]
The First Step to Being True to Yourself (and Everyone Else)
Only when the pleasure of being by ourselves either equals or exceeds that contentment that we feel in the company of others, are we capable of being unshakably true to ourselves, as well as those with whom we gather.
- Guy Finley
In this age when mail and other types of correspondence can be sent mostly through electronic means, it’s sometimes easy to simply treat them as a chore or something that can be done on auto-mode. I find that there are times when I seem to be putting less thought into the words and energy in [...]
One good thing about good ties is that they are always invigorating and repleneshing when you bring them back. Energetic connections with people with whom you’ve had good relationships and happy moments with bring about an exchange of nourishing energies when you get together.
I recently saw a concert performed by the choir I belong to. [...]
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