Tea Time: Who We Invite to Our Table
A round-up of my favourite reading this past week. From The Last Samhain Supper of the Holy Ghosts: Resurrecting Our Wounded Women We are calling…
Boundaries & Emotional Safety
Until my familial obligations of 2004-2012, I never knew it was possible to be taken to task for one’s natural likes, dislikes, and natural emotional reactions. I’d…
Lessons from Collaborative Failures
I’m not the only one, I’m sure, who’s noticed time, karma, and lessons accelerating in the last months. On the surface, it would be easy…
Lessons from Improvisational Theatre
After spending much of my life hiding from attention, I started coming out of my shell around the time I became a history tour guide in 2007. It…
Tea Time: Alternate Paths
Pathological Narcissism–A Spiritual Disorder The Secret: The Spirituality of Narcissism Stuart Davis makes a good case for why The Secret may worsen narcissistic behavior and suffering. It’s…
Interwoven
I know more women now than ever who are single, separated, or divorced. We share one thing in common: we’ve said No more to those mismatched…
Gifts and Burdens
I lost my cool today while outnumbered by my five-year-old and my mum with Alzheimer’s. Taking care of them both at the same time, after…
Of fence-sitters, friendships, and fall-out
A life spent trying to be a people-pleaser tends to impart a few lessons, sooner or later: You can’t please everybody, regardless of your heroic…
Healing Lessons from Parenthood and Childhood
When I got pregnant, I knew about it the day right after conception. I was getting flashbacks to my own childhood, memories I’d long forgotten,…
Personal thoughts on interpersonal conflicts
In college, I studied Communications before transferring to (print) Journalism. The type of journalism I most admired was written investigative journalism that produced books and/or…