The Mothering Paradox
One of the greatest gifts you can give a mother with children from preschool to high school is time out. One of the greatest gifts you can give a mother with adult children is more time with their children. [...]
Women, stop playing small!
Women, it's time to stop playing small. Start seeing yourself as the leading role in your own life, not the supporting act. This is a mindset, a choice and an action. If you hold onto the victim mindset that [...]
Happy Mother’s Day: Motherhood, a Profound Personal Development Adventure
Happy Mother's Day "The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new." Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Your world is turned upside [...]
How are you creating your BLACK GOLD?
How are you creating your 'BLACK GOLD'? What do parenting, management of teams, gardening and personal development have in common? Spring is here and none too soon. I am loving the heady scent of jasmine wafting through the warm air, [...]
How to keep something back for you….
While I strongly believe in being emotionally present and showing up for your children, in our busy, multi-tasking lives today we have to find creative ways of doing this on the run, without committing self-sacrifice in the process. While all [...]
Mums – you can’t have 6 weeks off
...But you can claim THIS day! The famous little restaurant, Il de Pain, in Knysna, should be closing for six weeks around about now to take a break before the busy Knysna Oyster Festival that starts end of June. There [...]
DO YOU SEE ME?
For the past few months, since my husband’s death, I have been under a deluge of administration issues that come with the end of a life. I was warned that the system was unfriendly, time-consuming, frustrating and arduous, but until [...]
Mother’s Day: Why mothers just ‘know’
You are more connected to your children than you think You are lying in bed fast asleep and for some inexplicable reason you eyes fly open and you are on full alert. Your whole system is telling you that one [...]