My partner and I went for marriage counselling. The counsellor looked at me and said “You’re a hard task master. You’re extremely hard on yourself. I believe you were advised at the beginning to rest everyday. It’s important you start doing that.” My eldest child is 11. So 11 years ago I was given the…
Until the whole world is free to agree with you or disagree with you, until you have given the freedom to everyone to like you or not to like you, to love you or hate you, to see things as you see them or to see things differently — until you have given the whole…
There’d been an issue of trust in the relationship — not of the cheating kind, I’ve always trusted him in that way. It had more to do with hurt feelings. I had never really felt supported by him, in different areas of life. What I realise now is that the issue of trust began with…
Brené Brown was interviewed by Jonathan Fields on the ‘Good Life Project’. At the end of the interview he asked her: “What does a good life mean to you?” For me, a good life is one that happens when you stop and are grateful for the ordinary moments that so many of us just steam roll…
A big part of what had motivated me in life was a need to prove my worth to others, and myself. This had been such an unconscious program for me. It was really hard to recognise, because the way it manifests in the world is as being very busy and productive. Which is meant to…