Forgiveness Only Involves You. Reconciliation Involves The Other Person Too. Forgive versus Reconciliation. I got so hung up on having to forgive people in my life. I knew it was the best road to take for me, it would lead me to find serenity and peace in my life. But the thought of forgiving someone… Read More Forgiveness Only Involves You. Reconciliation Involves The Other Person Too.
Living alone for many can mean a time of loneliness. For others, we find ourselves in a relationship or living with others and still feel lonely. Some of us find ourselves living alone for the first time after many years of marriage and children filling up our lives. For others, this may be your first… Read More Living Alone: What can I do to stave off loneliness?
What Are Boundaries? Boundaries are about you, not anyone else. These are your personal boundaries. You need to set boundaries for yourself, based on your values and morals. Setting your own boundaries comes from a place of empowerment. It involves you deciding what you participating in and who with. Learning to say no and realising… Read More What Are Boundaries? How Do I Set Them?
We all want to improve our memory at some time in our lives or just stay on top of all that’s happening in our busy lives. So as a mother of five adult children down the years I’ve learnt what works for me. Here are some of my recommendations that I’ve used. Mindfulness I took… Read More 5 Ways To Improve Your Memory
To start off the New Year I’ve written up a journal for self-care day challenge. Many people make New Year resolutions in January but I’m asking you not to. Instead, I’m asking you to get to know you better. So for the next 32 days, I’d like you to ask yourself the following questions in… Read More No New Year Resolutions Just Yet! (Self-Care Final Section)
This is the last post in the self-soothing series. I have one last post I will put out next week in the overall self-care series. It will be a series of questions to ask yourself, when you get some quiet time, over the holidays. It may help you set some new goals for 2017 or… Read More Building Up New Habits (Self Soothing) Using the Senses Part 6 Other Suggestions
Well done if you have taken the initiative and incorporated something from all the previous lists into your daily routine. This week we look at the touch. Our skin covers our bodies and is the largest organ we have. It is through our skin we feel and experience some of the nicest emotions we can.… Read More Build Good Habits (Self Soothing) Using the Senses Part 5 Touch
We can tend to centre family life around celebrations that involve food. Some of our best and worst memories can be linked to those celebrations. We can at times also turn to food for comfort. If that is the case you may want to skip this week’s suggestions but you could also adopt some new… Read More Building Good Habits (Self Soothing) Using the Senses Part 4 Taste
Continuing on with our series of blogs on self-care and self-soothing (building good habits) in a healthy manner, we find ourselves taking on the sense of smell this week. The smell can be one of the most provocative of senses. Sometimes they can even trigger good or bad memories years later. So this week why… Read More Building Up New Habits (Self Soothing) using the senses Part 3 Smell
Continuing on from last week’s post –Building Up New Habits (Self soothing) using the senses Part 1 Vision – we move on to incorporating hearing as part of our self-care routine. Healthy self-soothing/habits are an important part of any human’s self-care routine and incorporating all the senses is vital to stimulate all our mind, body and… Read More Building Up New Habits (Self Soothing) Using The Senses: Part 2 Hearing
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