When you see a confident woman, you can be forgiven for thinking they have everything in their life together, sorted, colour coded and filed neatly, because how else would a confident person have it? We look at them and think that it must be so nice to feel so confident in who we are and…
We all know the importance of sleep, but when you add in small children who want to take over your bed, a snoring husband, and a million tasks running through your mind, a restful and rejuvenating sleep seems like a fantasy. But, creating bedtime habits for better sleep can at least help get your nights…
Your alarm goes off and before you know it you roll over and hit snooze. For a blissful few seconds you don’t think about what lies ahead for the day, you’re in that euphoric daze. But then you realise you have to go to work and you come crashing back down to reality. It’s a…
Minimalism isn’t just something people ‘do’, it’s a way of life, and as such, there are certain habits of minimalist living you can adopt in order to live a simpler, less cluttered and happier life. While there’s no overnight easy way to become a minimalist, or live a more minimalist lifestyle, it doesn’t have to…
When you hear ‘confident woman’ most people will automatically have the image of someone they resonate within their mind. This person is easily noticed, they portray success and they radiate happiness. They are your perfect picture of ‘confidence’. But what is it about these people that makes them confident? As with most traits, there are…
Financial concerns and (in)stability can be a major source of personal dissatisfaction, feelings of uneasiness and unhappiness. As a financial consultant, I often meet people with emotional and psychological issues stemming from their financial problems, which, unfortunately, often results in anxiety, depression and psychosomatic conditions. Since I’ve noticed this pattern in 90 percent of the…
Everyday all around the world there are people battling hidden illnesses that even those closest to them may not even know they have. There’s a man walking through the crowded mall with his wife, scanning every face that walks past them with an agitated look upon his face. He has post-traumatic stress disorder, but you…
The other night at dinner, my daughter asked a question out of our Table Topics game, “Do you think it’s possible to get over a fear?” Lily, my husband, and I immediately said, “Yes.” While my son, Jasper, answered, “No. I don’t like horror movies and I don’t ever want to!” My son had a…
It has been almost four years since I was diagnosed with severe post natal depression and anxiety. I almost lost my husband and son resulting in almost taking my life. I didn’t want to accept that I was extremely unwell and that the transparent disease debilitated me as a mother, wife and as a woman. …
Without a doubt, we all have a part of our body we are self conscious about. As women, we often pass this off as a joke “oh my cankles won’t fit in those boots” or “Oh I can’t shop there, they don’t have ‘chubby’ as a size, haha”. So I had an idea – because…