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What do I want to achieve?

Posted in My personal story, can do, coping, creating amazing, emotional well being, life, love, men, mental health, self awareness, self esteem, separation, teaching, tagged on February 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Ok…so I have moved on…am getting better – now what? Like what exactly are my goals? What do I now want to achieve? I have spent the better part of the last 6 months playing and having fun but essentially I am goal driven and not a floater. Floating has been fun but I [...]

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Stonewalled by a teenager

Posted in Dragonslaying, My personal story, anger, emotional well being, family issues, love, mother, relationships, teenage girls on August 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Are you a parent with a 17 something teenage daughter that thinks she has the man of her dreams in her life and who bends the rules at every opportunity…I am and sad to say but I have had to bring to the fore tough love – problem it’s it feels tough on me too. [...]

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Emotional Intelligence

Posted in Depression, anger, can do, creating amazing, emotional well being, family issues, learning, love, mental health, mother, relationships, self awareness, self esteem, teaching, women on July 11, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Well this is not about my relationship with the ex for a change! This is about me, you and everyone else! I am rather chuffed to say that I have been noted for responding to a clip of a scene performed by Sydney Poitier noting how it reflects what we are capable of if we [...]

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Learning to say NO!

Posted in Depression, Dragonslaying, In the Community, My personal story, anger, can do, creating amazing, life, love, relationships, self awareness, self esteem, teenage girls, women on June 16, 2007 | 3 Comments »

Ok..I have a life long problem…I am not good at saying ‘no’. It’s a simple word. I can do it well in the classroom when I have to, and sometimes I have no choice but to say ‘no’ because it costs too much and is not in the budget – but that’s not the kind of [...]

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Miss ‘I wanna leave home’.

Posted in Dragonslaying, My personal story, anger, family issues, life, love, mother, relationships, self awareness, separation, teenage girls, women on May 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »

Prelude: If you have been following this story you know I have separated from my husband and Miss 17 was not coping with the living arrangements so she lost it. Miss 17 is wanting to cut loose and leave both of us:
“I don’t want to live with you at Grandma’s. I don’t like her. …I am [...]

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She hit rock bottom

Posted in My personal story, anger, emotional well being, family issues, love, mental health, mother, relationships, self awareness, separation, teenage girls, women on May 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »

She has hit rock bottom
She can’t cope with the separation under one roof thing
She feels unsupported, uncertain
She thinks she needs to go it alone, but she doesn’t feel ready
She did not want to come home
I got her and brought her home
She wanted to talk
Dad and mum at the table, little sister was out
She blurted it [...]

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What next? (Teenage daughter story!)

Posted in creating amazing, emotional well being, family issues, life, love, mother, relationships, teenage girls, women on May 14, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Miss A is almost 17. In fact will be next week. She is confused, emotionally intense, communicates aggressively right now and is draining all my energy. I go out and fill my emotional bicket and she drops a bombshell or starts and argument. I am feeling a bit like I am taking one step forward [...]

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Let me explore a ‘dragon’ – the stuck dragon

Posted in Depression, Dragonslaying, anger, can do, creating amazing, emotional well being, family issues, life, love, mental health, mother, relationships, self awareness, self esteem, separation, women on April 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I was reading recently a blog by Laura Young called ‘The dragons slayers guide to life’ a great site that has a wonderful series on dragon slaying you could read – it might help you identify some dragons in your life and some ways of dealing with them. Then comes along another post by Craig [...]

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The nightmare

Posted in Depression, Dragonslaying, anger, dreams, emotional well being, family issues, life, love, mental health, relationships, self awareness, self esteem, separation, women on April 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I don’t usually wake to nightmares but recently this has been happening a lot and it has scared the shit out of me. I am writing about it in the hope that along with this, the milo, the valium and some pain killer for the sciatic that is screaming at me I might head to [...]

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Upset the apple cart and see where the apples fall!

Posted in Depression, Dragonslaying, My personal story, anger, can do, creating amazing, emotional well being, ex husband, family issues, life, love, men, mental health, relationships, self awareness, self esteem, separation, women on April 16, 2007 | 2 Comments »

I heard this quote on the radio the other day. I am in the middle of crawling out of a hole of deep and dark depression and one aspect of my life that took me into this hole was the ‘do not under any circumstances rock the boat’ way of approaching life. Instinctively I knew this [...]

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