As a parent of three children (now adults) I am very aware of the mistakes I made while raising the family.  Plus I am certain I made mistakes that I’m not aware of.  Oh yes, I made mistakes!  Thus when I became a new grandparent I was determined to be very careful of my interactions [...]

How often have you seen someone physically struggling with a task and yet reluctant to seek help?  And how often have you sensed that someone is experiencing emotional stress and anxiety and yet does not speak up and ask for help? 
And it’s no wonder.  The way our society operates, we are led to believe [...]

Here we are at the end of the first month of the New Year already—what a fun time it is to take a look at what is different for you in 2009.  
To make it easy, first take a look at all the circumstances that have changed for you.  Perhaps you have been hit by the [...]

I’ve just become a grandmother to a beautiful little girl.  What a milestone in my life.  And who’d have believed I’d be ‘Nana’ to a child of British and Australian parents born in a foreign land.   Here’s our story.
We have been blessed with just one daughter and she and her Australian partner were about to [...]

As humans we are great at giving people the benefit of our advice and guiding them into what we would like.  Here’s a story from a friend of ours – Anita Costa – who describes such a situation . . and puts another perspective on what is happening.
A couple of weeks ago, my partner and [...]