Month: October 2017

To encourage is to feel and be encouraged. Encouragement means giving courage. For those who initially welcome encouragement, the encouragement they receive will never not be noticed, contrary to what that person feels. At that moment when we’re not feeling encouraged, it’s easy for us to lose sight of what others do.

It’s only when we look back that we see it. But being encouraged helps builds self-esteem and self-belief; encouragement makes us more determined, encouraged to do and give of our best …

As parents, it’s our job to sacrifice ourselves, not our children. It’s our job to protect our children and for the majority of us, we get that right. But where some parents serve to protect themselves out of selfishness, it’s the children that become the victims. Sadly, the recent sad story about Sherin Mathews reinforces that view. Beautiful angel.

I turn to my own life and what I had to deal with. Each and every blog I write, reminds me of what I went through as a child. My blog allows me to reflect on my own childhood experiences …

We must allow ourselves to identify and make peace with ourselves, our past and with our present lives. By learning to identify with certain experiences, deal with and come to terms with parts of those experiences that form our past, we will begin to open our minds to life in its present form and all its future possibilities.

We learn and identify better through understanding our issues, past and present and then how best we can make the necessary changes. It’s important we learn how to identify what’s clearly bothering us. Not to will interfere …