Standing in the checkout line at Woolies, I was suddenly aware of an impulse to sneeze. As I wasn’t unwell, in ordinary times this wouldn’t have been a particularly interesting event. However these aren’t ordinary times, and I was acutely aware that my sneeze (if...
All of us make mistakes. To be human is to sometimes fall short of who we really could be (or think we should be). Our mistakes might be a series of small failures...
Relationships are stressful at times and we all know what it feels like to “lose it” when our stress levels rise too high. Marriage therapists call this being “emotionally flooded”....
When you feel angry or stressed, do you act like it’s a licence to behave badly in your relationship?...
Feeling suffocated by parenthood? Changing this will be easier once you can let go of what was. New parents love their babies. Many of them however, hate the loss of freedom that being a parent brings....
Life is a long journey. Everyone gets lost at various points along the way. The problem with getting lost is that we don’t realise we are lost because we’ve gone numb. We’re still living and loving but we’re doing it “asleep” from our own innate wisdom...
The best, simplest, easiest, cheapest and by far most effective strategy for handling stress well is to breathe well. Breath? Ridiculous hey? We all breathe all the time....
I’m the first to acknowledge that fear of failure has cost me dearly in my life so far. I’m getting better at “feeling the fear and doing it anyway”, but I know I could have achieved more great stuff in life had I not been...
Behaving like an adult during normal day to day interactions is one thing: managing to do so during times of extreme stress is a completely different challenge. Strong emotional reactions are normal when relationships get tough. But this doesn’t mean they are always helpful. Knowing how...
Ready to understand the “do’s and don’ts” for healthy and rewarding relationships? At the forefront of evidence based research is the work by Dr. John Gottman and his team at The Gottman Institute in Seattle, who have been studying married couples for decades, with the aim...
“Creating a healthy
happy self”
“Turning troubled
relationships around”