Life Skills and Therapy to Empower Yourself - Cape Town

03/10/2020

Dealing With a Manipulative Person? Grey Rocking May Help ...

Grey rocking is a technique for dealing with manipulative or abusive people. We'll break down 6 techniques you can try out for yourself.

24/07/2020

Children often grow up to do what you did, not what you told them to do - here is why:

If parents are not emotionally healthy themselves, they can’t but fail to raise emotionally healthy children — the emotional issues they are suffering from will inevitably be transferred to their children.

20/05/2020

At uncertain times like this, it’s up to parents to model resilience, kindness and calm to their children. It’s hard. Children don’t have our level of reasoning. They’re anxious. We’re anxious too. That’s ok.

05/04/2020

Treat and help others as you want to be treated and helped.
The allegory of the long spoons teaches us that when we struggle to feed only ourselves, everyone goes hungry. But when we focus on our neighbours’ hunger, we discover there are ways to feed everyone.
This is also true when looking at modern life: when we reach out to help enough others, our needs are also taken care of and life becomes better for everyone.
We have the option to use what we are given (the long spoons in this allegory) to help meet each other’s needs. With exactly the same tools, we can either create a living hell or heaven on earth, simply by how we treat each other.
Click on https://myhero.com/film-allegory-spoons to see the clip:

MY HERO Project seeks unique works of art by professional and student artists that celebrate the lives and courageous acts of heroes who work to promote change by positively affecting others and their communities.

05/04/2020

25/03/2020

https://hbr.org/2020/03/that-discomfort-youre-feeling-is-grief?utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=hbr&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR16inBled_-0Vt8rE01V-43MOtIG0azj3QxPzycacWcTgG7zr24lZESkZQ

09/12/2019

Read this to the end and get inspired to change your life ...

I really didnt want to go to India. I was happy in Melbourne. I had a fulfilling job as a teacher and a hometown brimming with opportunities to do the things I loved. If I was hungry I could walk to my favourite cafes. If I fancied a beer I could pull up a stool in my local pub and if I was craving....

22/10/2019

Love is actually an action, not only a feeling or word (e.g. sometimes you may not like someone in a specific situation, but you love them enough to not wish them harm).