by Michele Marius | Sep 20, 2022 | Inspiration
Life is made up of a series of experiences that we go through that are designed to shape our character, build our resilience, and enable us to establish strong bonds of friendship. To put it simply, we are the product of our experiences, both good and bad, favourable...
by Michele Marius | Sep 19, 2022 | Inspiration
As women, we are often told that we teach other people how to treat us by the way we treat ourselves. However, girls and women have been, and continue to be, socialised to put others’ needs before our own. And if we do think of ourselves first, some members of our...
by Michele Marius | Sep 18, 2022 | Inspiration
There is a difference between ‘living’ and ‘existing’. ‘Living’ suggests that an individual has goals and dreams that they are actively working to achieve. Hopefully, these dreams are not purely material in nature, but would also help them to grow and unfold, and...
by Michele Marius | Sep 17, 2022 | Inspiration
Thanks to our human consciousness, we tend to focus on the negative: what went wrong; what we didn’t do right; what he/she/it/them did wrong; etc. Moreover, in the midst of a challenging situation, it is even easier to think negatively. However, in doing so, you may...
by Michele Marius | Sep 16, 2022 | Inspiration
We see it all the time, especially among young athletes and performers. They have excelled and are doing remarkably well for their age, and may even have received some acclaim. However, just a few years later, they have faded completely from the limelight, never fully...
by Michele Marius | Sep 15, 2022 | Inspiration
Upon first reading this quote, it may seem like an oxymoron. The concept that to be free requires discipline seems to fly in the face of what we have been taught or what we might have gleaned from life so far. Essentially, we have been led to believe that true freedom...
