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Part 1: Learning to be accountable for my pain. The lessons I learnt about betrayal
This is a two part post about my understanding of betrayal. The second part, when I learn to overcome the hurt, to find healing. This topic of betrayal has been floating inside my head for quite some time, waiting to be written. I suppose now is a gooder time than any other. I ponder on…
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Betrayal part 1: Pain is never without a purpose
The greatest versions of ourselves are resting in places of hurt and pain. But, too many would rather carry the hurt, than to see the purpose. Yes, pain. Even betrayal has its reasons. When I met Frankie, at first sight, she would have been the ideal friend that you hope for. Helpful, seemingly kind and…
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How do we define “success”?
Our personal turmoil begins when we make comparisons with another individual and now sense that we have not lived up to some “expectation” and have fallen short of some sort of “success”. But how many of us have stopped to ask the fundamental question of: “What defines success to us as an independent being?” But…
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My partner’s Lay off omen and what I learnt supporting him through the murky times.
This is a post about what I learnt on how to support my partner during his lay off and job search during an infertile job market, and how compassion helped me see things through the eyes of the struggling.
A ruminating Heart 