What are your basic rights? Not your political rights but your basic human rights within relationships, your rights to self-care and your right to autonomy and independence. Your right to put yourself first sometimes! The Basic Human Rights listed below have been created in various forms in assertiveness training courses. Read this list and consider…
Minimalism Game cuts down stress
Professional organizers who are employed to help out in cluttered homes and offices say their clients use the same words, over and over, to describe their reaction to the mess: their energy is drained, they can’t find things, and it’s beginning to interfere with their life, feeling overwhelmed, becoming less productive, sometimes feeling desperate, and…
Inwards versus Outwards
Emmy Werner, a US researcher conducted a longitudinal study on resilience and she observed that in general resilient children tended to be autonomous and independent, seeking out new experiences, with a “positive social orientation.” “Though not especially gifted, these children used whatever skills they had effectively,” Perhaps most importantly, the resilient children had what psychologists…
Using Softness To Soothe
Water is not usually described as soft, but today was a gloomy early morning, wind and rain pummeled the coast last night and it was calm as I walked around the lagoon this morning – and that water so velvety smooth and soft. I love the texture of water, the way it changes, with the…
Looking for the original Tranquillo Place
Childhood Sanctuary. When I was in primary school my father would drive with me and 2 or 3 siblings to Cottage Point, on the way we would call into his friend’s house to pick up the tinny on it’s trailer. The car was laden with supplies for 4 or 5 days, we would lug everything…