I remember a number of years ago, my teenage daughter came up the stairs in quite the mood. Steamrolling her way through, I immediately froze and was like whoa! My mind captured that behaviour, that image, and perceived it as a challenge. My inner dialogue became judgemental and …
Parenting
How to Heal Trauma
Healing trauma is no doubt a reality and a buzz word. It’s so important, yet most people circle and dance around it, like it’s an illusive, intangible idea. And in this idea that people see, comes this never ending cycle that people will use to avoid taking responsibility for their healing, and …
How to Recover When a Family Member Makes You Angry
I’m going to start with the end in mind; “Anger is a strategy”. I start with that, because we need to de-emotionalize anger for a moment so we can see things more clearly. When a fish wants food, it swims. Swimming is the strategy. We have emotions and traits about us, that we use day to …