I love the idea that my body and my mind are getting stronger when I adapt to stressful circumstances. However, the stress has to be bearable otherwise the effect will be more detrimental than beneficial.
I love how Bridget Nielsen describes it. The perspective of Thierry from Regenere is also very interesting (in French).
Is learning to deal with frustration and being able to delay instant gratification a secret to success in life?
I believe it is one skill we can teach to our children.
Are you asking for money so you can go back to college and improve your future? I wrote a letter to social services asking for financial help. I was back to law university at 33 years old as single mum. The aim of the letter is to be clear, concise and easily readable.
I share more about my journey back to college in my book The Knot in the Spiral:
Old fear of lack, I drop you today. I don’t know where you come from, but I don’t need you anymore in my life. You can go away, I let you go. My friend, my sister, we all had pain, suffering, so much bleedings cuts, heartbreaks, abrupt weaning, whatever the trauma was, I let it go. I have everything I need. Everything. I have abundance, I have love, I have joy. I repeat it like a mantra, like a soft toy from childhood, like the warm blanket under which the outside world doesn’t exist anymore. I have everything I need. I have everything. Thank you God, Universe, Life. I feel like smiling and crying at the same time. I have everything. Thank you.
What’s your mantra sister? Share with the community and help other women!
Talking about sexuality to our children without taboo allows them to dedramatize the subject while protecting them. Hence, to be informed is the first step to make conscious and smart choices. Yes, I want my daughter to be cautious and intelligent when it comes to sexuality. At the same time, I do not want to stay silent as regard to the beauty of what sexuality can be, with the right partner. My aim is that my daughter become a self-confident woman, delighted to be in the skin she is.
I love the book (French edition) “Parler du vagin à ma fille” or How to talk about vagina to my daughter, because it is clear, honest, without taboo. Written by an OB-GYN, it contains all the important and necessary information, like hygiene, sexual transmitted diseases, pleasure and contraception. The book is written like a dialogue between the author and her 20-year-old daughter. The beginning of the book offers lots of historical data as regard to the place of women in medicine in general, then more precisely as midwives then OB-GYN. Thank you Catherine Rinieri for this open-hearted book. It is the second time I read it, safe for the fact that today I have an extraordinary teenage daughter next to me. I cannot find a better time to start tackling the topic of sexuality, with kindness, simplicity and truth.
Please share if you know similar books in English!
Breathe. Reflect. Act inspired.
You can be proud of yourself, my friend, my sister. We can all congratulate ourselves, without waiting for any external validation. We do not need others to validate the great job we do, especially as a single mother.
After a few weeks spent alone with the children in Portugal on holiday, I am proud. I am happy because I did my very best to be a loving mother with much patience, organization skills and generosity.
