Do you want to be happy, or do you want to be ‘right’?
I’ve discovered in recent years that life is about choices and often, when we think it’s others that hold the key to our misery or happiness, it’s actually us. Often, and usually it’s when sh*tty...
View ArticleHow Important Is It For You To Be The Good Girl?
As women I feel we have some in-built inclination to spend copious amounts of time energy wondering what other people think and seeking confirmation that we are all the things we think we are or want...
View ArticleTelling Them All About Themselves – Why It’s Not Your Job To List Their Flaws...
In the summer of 2000 in a hotel room in Fort Lauderdale, I vented every last thing that my Mr Unavailable of two years had done to piss me off. The hurt, pain, frustration, rejection, humiliation and...
View ArticleGetting past disappointment: let go of the ‘fixed ideas’ that hurt you
One of the things that we find difficult to deal with in life is disappointment, that sense of our hopes and expectations not being met. Part of getting through the on-the-job training that is life,...
View ArticleDon’t let pursuit of trying to get somebody to do the right thing, blind you...
I know from personal experience that one can get blinded in the pursuit of trying to get somebody to do the right thing, the ‘right thing’ being the opposite to whatever they’re currently being and...
View ArticleDo you want to be happy, or do you want to be ‘right’?
I’ve discovered in recent years that life is about choices and often, when we think it’s others that hold the key to our misery or happiness, it’s actually us. Often, and usually it’s when sh*tty...
View ArticleHow Important Is It For You To Be The Good Girl?
As women I feel we have some in-built inclination to spend copious amounts of time energy wondering what other people think and seeking confirmation that we are all the things we think we are or want...
View ArticleTelling Them All About Themselves – Why It’s Not Your Job To List Their Flaws...
In the summer of 2000 in a hotel room in Fort Lauderdale, I vented every last thing that my Mr Unavailable of two years had done to piss me off. The hurt, pain, frustration, rejection, humiliation and...
View ArticleGetting past disappointment: let go of the ‘fixed ideas’ that hurt you
One of the things that we find difficult to deal with in life is disappointment, that sense of our hopes and expectations not being met. Part of getting through the on-the-job training that is life,...
View ArticleDon’t let pursuit of trying to get somebody to do the right thing, blind you...
I know from personal experience that one can get blinded in the pursuit of trying to get somebody to do the right thing, the ‘right thing’ being the opposite to whatever they’re currently being and...
View ArticleDo you want to be happy, or do you want to be ‘right’?
I’ve discovered in recent years that life is about choices and often, when we think it’s others that hold the key to our misery or happiness, it’s actually us. Often, and usually it’s when sh*tty...
View ArticleHow Important Is It For You To Be The Good Girl?
As women I feel we have some in-built inclination to spend copious amounts of time energy wondering what other people think and seeking confirmation that we are all the things we think we are or want...
View ArticleTelling Them All About Themselves – Why It’s Not Your Job To List Their Flaws...
In the summer of 2000 in a hotel room in Fort Lauderdale, I vented every last thing that my Mr Unavailable of two years had done to piss me off. The hurt, pain, frustration, rejection, humiliation and...
View ArticleGetting past disappointment: let go of the ‘fixed ideas’ that hurt you
One of the things that we find difficult to deal with in life is disappointment, that sense of our hopes and expectations not being met. Part of getting through the on-the-job training that is life,...
View ArticleDon’t let pursuit of trying to get somebody to do the right thing, blind you...
I know from personal experience that one can get blinded in the pursuit of trying to get somebody to do the right thing, the ‘right thing’ being the opposite to whatever they’re currently being and...
View ArticleHealthy relationships don’t focus on ‘winning’ and avoiding ‘losing’
In an unhealthy relationship, incompatibilities and unmet needs feature alongside behaviours that don’t serve the greater good of the relationship. And all-t0o-often, the partners focus on ‘winning’...
View ArticleWe don’t need to announce to our ex that we’re ‘over’ them or ignoring them
Many moons ago, I bumped into an ex who made a point of letting me know that he was “over” me. To be clear, I hadn’t asked, and he dropped it into the conversation as if he’d kept a juicy secret under...
View ArticleBeyond Who’s Right and Winning: Building Respect in Love
For respect to happen in practice within intimate (romantic) relationships, we need healthy boundaries. Each partner has to know where they end and the other begins.The true test of a relationship is...
View ArticleAssert Yourself for You, Not for Approval or Control
Boundaries are not about gaining agreement and validation. Instead, they’re about showing up and being stakeholders in our lives. If you consider that we are each our boundaries and our boundaries are...
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