How to Overcome a Victim Mentality

How to Overcome a Victim Mentality

“We all have a story. The difference is: do you use the story to empower yourself? Or do you use your story to keep yourself a victim? The question itself empowers you to change your life.” ― Sunny Dawn Johnston Let me start by saying, it is understandable that many...
How to Recognise and Deal with a Sycophant

How to Recognise and Deal with a Sycophant

“Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.” – Richard Steele Sycophancy is flattery that is very obedient, or an indication of...
How to Express Your Feelings in a Healthy Way

How to Express Your Feelings in a Healthy Way

There’s a lot of feeling being expressed in the world currently, and not all of it is being expressed effectively – some of it simply serves to create ill-feeling and negative emotions in others. With feelings running so high, I wanted to write about how to express...
How to Refresh Your Life

How to Refresh Your Life

In recent months I have written about using the current pandemic situation as a possible opportunity to make a new start, or even to reinvent yourself. In a similar vein, today I am talking about refreshing your life. “Rest when you’re weary. Refresh and renew...
How To Let Go of Toxic Masculinity

How To Let Go of Toxic Masculinity

According to the Australian sociologist R. W. Connell (the one who originally coined the phrase), the phrase “toxic masculinity” refers to when a man engages in behaviours that are traditionally considered “masculine” that are damaging to those around him, society at...
How To Reinvent Yourself

How To Reinvent Yourself

I wrote in recent weeks about starting afresh in life and considering the current world situation as an opportunity. This also presents an opportunity to reinvent oneself, and that’s what I’m writing about today… “You are never too old to reinvent yourself.” –...