Month: April 2017

We don’t erase the memories, but through our understanding and finding a place for those memories, we free ourselves of the bitterness. The memories brought about through other people’s actions are then remembered as a valuable lesson.

Letting go will never cancel out another person’s actions, or the frustrations we have, but freeing ourselves of the bitterness attached to those actions, allows us to bring about an understanding we didn’t …

Throughout our lives, we may emotionally struggle. My site is testament to my experiences and my life, how I’ve coped, what my reasoning and understandings are and how I’ve chosen to deal with them.

We all get the insecurity thing, the low self-esteem thing, the lack of confidence thing and why we all probably have had those at one time or another, but we should still want to put things right …

It’s a parent’s job to protect, not to scar their children. Some parents may have good intentions and set out to protect their children, but may end up scarring them instead.

Crossed words, raised voices, negative tones all create emotional scarring, if they are continually being used. When we use sarcasm, lash out, use words that attack, undermine and pull down, the patterns …

Although mediation is usually involved and refers to an intervention in a dispute to resolve that dispute, I also believe there’s a different explanation that works in life too. Mediation is an intervention in a process or relationship and should work in families too.

Not many families use mediation. They offer an opinion, the opinion isn’t accepted then we fall out or walk away, depending on what comes first. Mediation should be used as a tool …