I had been scrolling through a superhero imagery recently, and I was a little appalled that the superheroes that kids would like to identify with are dry muscular figures. Yes, I understand that superheroes are super partly, because they are unreal fantasy characters. However, these superhero figures provide a [...]
When you meet a new person, they create an image of you in the blink of an eye and often unconsciously. People may have strong images of you even if you have never met them before. Images may arise in social media or through other people's stories. Images created [...]
The reason we're always in a hurry is because we haven’t said NO enough. In life, there always seems to be “important” things to take care of, one more important than the other. At some point life may feel like an endless roller coaster, where we never stop, for [...]
We're all familiar with self-care for adults. There are a lot of lit candles, long baths, and many glasses of wine. Very rarely do we think of kids as needing self-care too, but of course they do! The only thing is, their time off often looks very different from [...]
Gratitude is not the end result, but rather an attitude to life, a valuable skill worth practicing. But why practice a thankful attitude to life? Here are six reasons from my own experience. You can choose how you feel You experience relief when you understand that you can choose [...]
My darling child, When you were born, I felt like I was looking at a miracle. A new and precious life in my arms. How on earth would I be able to be the kind of mother who would not presume things about you or push you a towards [...]
You are tired when you wake up in the morning, after lunch - and you are ever more tired in the evening, even if you have slept well or at least moderately. It seems that you are just and just coping with all your compulsory obligations, but then that [...]
Every moment and every morning is wholly new (even when you wake up in old familiar sheets), and you can, from a clean table, say that the past is dead and this new moment is fresh. In the fresh moment, you can give life a chance to regenerate through [...]
It does not matter what the colour or the value of your spoon is when you embark on the egg-and-spoon-race of life. We all have our own life path, our own challenges, our own starting points, each with our own different interests and different life situations. And yet, we [...]
What do you do when you're bursting with energy? Do you enjoy the feeling? A lot of people are excellent at managing their lives. Getting their tasks done. Performing well. Accomplishing the next thing. They gather energy, so they can repeat the cycle; doing the tasks, performing well, and [...]
