My eldest has started a new school this year, and each year they have theme that they focus on for the whole year. This year the theme is compassion. The dictionary defintion of compassion is "to suffer with" and it contains the same latin root, pati as one of my words for the year passion. … Continue reading On compassion
Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love Brené Brown We have been having a conversation with our girls of late about how they talk to others. This is more than a discussion about the words they use, but also about body language, attitude and tone of voice. It has been an interesting … Continue reading watch your language
Today I took a 'think day' after reading a blog by Tsh Oxenrider of the Art of simple. The premise behind this day is allowing yourself space just to think about life. She quotes author Greg McKeown: We need space to escape in order to discern the essential few from the trivial many. Unfortunately, in … Continue reading Embracing 2017: Think days
This morning my daughter grabbed some books off the shelf and immersed herself in them. "These are fantastic books mum, come and see". As I went in, I realised the books she held are books written by my good friend, Elaine Fraser. Writing can be such an isolating exercise. Essentially it is me and my keyboard or a … Continue reading on writing, reading and the power of books
Deny: to declare a statement to be untrue; to reject as false; to withhold; to refuse to fulfil the expectations of; to refuse to acknowledge; disown; to refuse (oneself) things desired. I am a big believer in the power of words. The words spoken over our life and the words that we speak to … Continue reading Deny