Likely, the skills you learn along the way and the emotional growth will mean that if and when your child reconnects, you are best placed not to mess it up. But it's best not to make that your goal. Look within for you. For you. For your better, happier life.

Perhaps the most frustrating part of the fear of success is self-sabotage. You know you can do something, yet somehow you can't. After working hard towards a goal and achieving some success along the way, it's often at the last hurdle that we inexplicably throw in the towel. Because there’s that seed of doubt someone planted deep in your psyche as a permanent reminder that you don’t deserve success.

And to corrupt René Descartes' philosophy, I think, therefore I am. I live, love, and especially hope. Nobody promised us life would be fair, but we still have hope that our lives will be happy and meaningful. It’s how humans are built.

The Helter Skelter scenario is an apocalyptic vision reportedly embraced by serial killer and cult leader Charles Manson and members of...

A kinkeeper- the gatekeeper to the family, is a family member, usually, but not always, a woman, who takes on the role of maintaining...

Men, particularly lion-hearted men, tend to disown their emotions, and the emotions of others, or at least assign them significantly less prominence than say putting food on the table- including their quest to earn a good living in their career or business, which, some think will be key to getting to be the one to copulate with the lioness, but also to give their families a better life.

We all know our value, although it is sometimes hidden under layers of fear and pain. We all have something to give the world, something meaningful: ourselves. And this value may be where we can finally learn why we are deserving of all the blessings and happiness life has to offer.

Take that "kick me" sign down, demagnetize the undeserved abuse, and go forward into a better, happier life using your magnetic personality- your kindness tempered by tolerance, your caring balanced with care for yourself.

But I didn’t escape that life by cutting her off. I escaped by finding my real identity. It was within me all along, and despite everything, my mother is still an intrinsic part of me, despite having left this realm.

Once limited to being an essential weapon for narcissists and psychopaths, dehumanization has seeped into many facets of life, as people...

Propaganda, the spread of vicious lies with the very specific intent of creating a particular narrative in the short term to grab power...

Values, the principles by which we live, come in all forms, but the value of terminal values —that include happiness and inner peace —is at the core of who we are, and can redirect our fate. What Are Values? The word “value” also has many meanings- each equally valuable: Value: The regard that something is held to deserve, or the importance, worth, or usefulness of something. Something of value has merit or worth. Value: The principles or standards of behaviour based on that

Take a deep breath right now. Go ahead, inhale slowly through your nose, let your belly expand, then exhale gently through your mouth. Feels kinda good, right?

Despite that the rainbow baby has done no wrong, asking their mother to forgive them may be the most courageous thing they will ever do. Rec

The good news is that many people have broken the profound and complex cycle of generational trauma. The other good news is that the healing

Utter hopelessness feels like you are in a dark cocoon of nothingness, with no way out. All the best advice in the world seems meaningless a

Or perhaps we need to turn our fears into flying monkeys and watch them fly off into the sunset, leaving

Fearlessness is rare- almost every person alive is scared of something, whether it's spiders or speed, falling or failing, commitment or cro

Annoyance, frustration, and sometimes even fearfulness emerge when someone invades your personal space or privacy and we're often tempted to

When was the last time you laughed till you cried at a knock, knock joke? Do you even know how to get a squirrel’s attention? Act like a nut