Caring Matters
Usually, when planning for a baby, the usual things most women focus on are eating healthy, baby clothes, doctors and maternity leave. Those things are important but there some things that most women fail to [Read More]
Just happened to come across a wonderful song ‘Grateful’ which echoed my current state of mind. Yes, sometimes we find it is hard to be grateful for our life but we need to find that [Read More]
Feelings of shame can be excruciatingly painful. The voices and sometimes unvoiced reactions of disgust or hate become encoded in our unconscious. Usually, the toxic emotion of shame is the legacy given to us by [Read More]
Healing our personal wounds takes time, patience and courage. When I was given the diagnosis of scoliosis at age 17 that I would be twisted and deformed. I felt my life had ended. My only [Read More]
I was 17 years when I got the official diagnosis that I had scoliosis. Official because my father had noticed something was amiss with my back 2 years earlier but thought I was doing it [Read More]
Life can be a huge struggle. However, life can feel effortless, like you’re gliding along, if you learn to swim smoothly, to glide, to stop fighting the waters of life and start using them to [Read More]
Fear is one of our primal instincts. The fear response arises from the perception of danger from which we either confront(fight), escape(flight) or becomes paralyzed (freeze) – the fight-flight-freeze response gets activated. Though fear is [Read More]
In his book The Upward Spiral, neuroscientist Alex Korb demystifies the neurological processes in the brain that causes depression and offers effective ways to get better―one little step at a time. One of the most [Read More]
Change is difficult. We can’t just think ourselves out of feelings of low self-esteem, depression or lack of courage. The subconscious programming of our childhood holds us back. No matter how much we try to [Read More]
Children are undiscerning imitators. Whatever social environment they are exposed to they copy that through observation and assimilation. The neurons in their developing brain are being wired. Their personality is developing. Imitation serves as both [Read More]