How connecting to your child self heals

Child self

My child self. This is who I am looking at today. When the judgement and self critique comes in high this is who I will look at. When discouragement and disapproval rise, this is the self that I am reminded of. This child. Our child selves. Our children. The children. Tender. Precious. Beautiful. Unadulterated. Joy […]

What’s the difference between life coaching and therapy?

difference between therapy and life coaching?

  I once heard this great analogy ( I can’t remember the source) that really helps to understand the difference between therapy and life Coaching. Therapy is like archeology where the focus is on excavating, digging, unearthing and examining the past to understand the present, (emotional patterns/old wounds affecting present behaviours, emotions, tendencies are identified […]

Dr. Gordon Neufeld on why children need play

Dr.GordonNeufeld

  I had the opportunity to sit down with Dr. Gordon Neufeld, developmental psychologist and best-selling author of Hold on to your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers (co-authored with Canadian Physician Gabor Maté) and founder of The Neufeld Institute. The topic was play, the nature of it, what true play is […]

Is spring break over yet?

juliespringbreak

Where’s the desert oasis? Isn’t it always here ? Isn’t that the soul’s journey? To experience the oasis at all times ? The gift in the present. The power in the now. I’m trying. Conflicting desires don’t make it easy. Wanting to be one place while being in another. Wanting to be doing something while […]