When your a caregiver, like many pastors, missionaries and counsellors it’s as if we are wearing a backpack and as we hear of people’s sad and traumatic stories we are taking the weight of their stories and filling up our backpacks. At the end of the day, we are...
Download: 3 tips on how to say no with grace How many times have you been in a situation when someone is asking you to do something and you think” I really should say no but I feel bad” So are faced with a decision. Do you say no and feel guilty, or you say...
Resilience can feel like a buzz word. It sounds really good, what does it actually mean? And even harder is figuring out how to achieve it. It’s like the unicorn of well-being or actually achieving the allusive “work-life balance”. Super nice to say and...
FREE DOWNLOAD: Self-care ideas Self-care is not selfish, but I can see why people might think that. It kinda says it in the name and the whole notion of self-care has really become popular in secular, humanistic thought. However, the concept of tending to your...
How many times have you counselled someone or given advice only for the person to say “ya butt”, have excuses or they come back time and time again with the same issue and have done nothing of what you discussed. What causes people to change their behaviour has...
When a person feels that they are being blamed—whether rightly or wrongly—it’s common that they respond with defensiveness. “I” statements are a simple way of speaking that will help you avoid this trap by reducing feelings of blame. A good “I” statement takes...
