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I arrived to Buenos Aires, Argentina on Saturday 3rd December 2011. I came here to experience a new way of life, to learn and grow as a person, to begin a new phase in my life, to face another challenge…
To move around the capital of Buenos Aires for me alone is not as easy as I would like it to be, for I know so little, and the city itself to me seems like one big jungle. (more…)
Life depends on feminine as much as masculine powers. Femininity cannot exist without masculinity and vice versa. The balance and harmony of the universe cannot be denied or changed in any way. The grand truth is that we are all equal, no matter how hard it is for some to admit. (more…)
Seduction… Do you know why at times it can be good to deny to someone access to the depths of your heart and instead choose seduction and lure? Because then you can avoid revealing your true self and your fears, showing too much of your bare skin made of soul and body. To that someone other you always remain beautiful and unique… (more…)
This week I picked a subject that will probably touch most of us…
Let’s face it, relationships are complicated, so what can we do to about it?
In this post, I refer mainly to relationships as men and women lovers. Although there are many more relationships in our lives, and different kinds of them, today I would like to talk about this kind in particular.
A few years ago I read John Gray’s famous book:Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
and I recommend it to anybody who is in a relationship or wants to be. Reading this book truly opened my eyes to a lot of truths about men, that I had never imagined, let alone understood! There are different opinions on this book, but I personally found it very helpful and accurate. (more…)
What we think influences what we feel and what we do. Our beliefs are what help us or stop us from achieving our wishes or goals. This is the first of two blogs on changing your beliefs so you can give your child the study skills support they need at home.
Here are 4 common beliefs I meet when coaching families:
Forgiveness means: First LET IT GO and then forgive. Forgive and then FORGET. When I re-member something, I am bringing it back into my energy field. Once I have looked at something that I have done to another or that another has done to me and have gone into it to see what the situation is calling me to look at, then it remains for me to take in the lesson into my heart. The final step is to SET IT FREE. I am setting free the emotional energy of that encounter. I am no longer holding it captive in my energy field. That energy is now free to move freely again as it will.
Only if I am able to put myself in the other’s place, and, as they say, ‘walk a mile in his/her shoes’, only then can I really understand the other. Once I am able to see the situation out of his/her eyes, I realize why things happened as they did. Then resentment melts away and compassion takes its place.
Teens might 
still need support to develop useful study skills, but for study skills support to be effective – it is crucial to develop a mutually respectful relationship with them. Previous posts talked about why and how you….
CHECK that your teen fully agrees with the study agreements made together. EXPECT them to honour their agreements and if they don’t, expect them to explain what went wrong and what they will do next time to honour that agreement. CHECK the agreed-upon consequences happen!
Offer study skills support assertively, not aggressively, and your teen is more likely to respect and keep study agreements with you.As their study skills support person, you have the final decision about what is acceptable or unacceptable study behavior. Create a shared understanding of study expectations as soon as possible. Encourage discussion with your teen until you both come to an agreement on what is acceptable and unacceptable study behavior.
Study skill support: Monitoring your teen’s study skills respectfully. 
New habits can be hard to begin! As your teen’s study skill support you can help them develop new study skill habits by monitoring them regularly. My other three posts on study skill support for your teens helped you create exciting, challenging goals and a water-tight study skill support agreement. This post gives you ideas on how you can monitor your teen respectfully so they learn to study regularly.
As we approach Valentine’s Day, many of us are planning and preparing to celebrate love, but do we really know what that is? What is love? My brother summed up the answer to this perennial question best: Love is a verb. No, it’s not just a morpheme used to make a syntactical structure grammatical, but an action. Love is acting selflessly, doing what is best for others, and giving unconditionally.
Keep your teen to the study skill agreement and its consequences – in the face of their opposition.
Check out my last 2 blogs which covered negotiating the study deal with your teen. Don’t renege unless some part of the study deal agreed with your teen needs renegotiating because it was clearly unfair.
If you decide to renegotiate study skill support with your teen, check out my first blog on deal making here so your child won’t hold you to ransom. Check out this post for more ideas on negotiation so that you both win.
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Develop a respectful give-and-take study skill support agreement with your teen.Young adults remind me of a toddler on restraining reins. As they grow they wander further away from you, but you still hold the rein. Decide on clear expectations about study with them, and agreed-upon negative consequences for if they break the agreement.
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Many of my students are teens. Teens often still need study skill support to succeed at school, but they need to be study skill support that respects them as young adults, or you may find they won’t co-operate willingly with you for long. Creating a respectful coaching relationship as for younger children, but concentrate more on developing a respectful adult relationship with them, so you can continue to give them the study skill support they need to succeed at school.
Relationships make up the fabric of our life. Any time we meet anyone our relationship to that person defines our interaction and our experience to a high degree. We often put our attention on a relationship in order to come closer to another and our attention is brought to any relationship that is less than harmonious. One relationship, however, is often over-looked because it is so close to us: our relationship with ourself.
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This week I would like to reflect on the power of our words, and how they can affect ourselves and others.
My mom used to tell me to turn my tongue 7 times inside my mouth before I said something that I would later regret, because once the words were said nothing could take them back.
When we are carried away by negative emotions like hurt, anger, frustration, sadness, etc. we may say things we don’t mean, and we may hurt people we love, also, we may realize later that our reaction was unnecessary or exaggerated.
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