Words of Snow

Looking back, the earliest account of my nearly paralysing perfectionism pace to my lower primary school days. As far as I can remember, I always owned a note book. Far from the usual ones in stores, mine was of an exercise book from my previous class that had not filled up from the subjects course work. Every now and then I would open it and put down my thoughts, mostly girly stuff not to mention naive reflections of a village-bred nine year old. I would give vent to my thoughts, which would flow through the pen onto paper and if I made a single mistake-of a misspelled word or jagged letter I would refuse to cross it out.

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." -- Søren Kierkegaard The year is over half way over, can you believe it?! Back in January, you probably set goals and may have added to that list along the way and if you want to make sure you achieve the goals you set like the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard said: "life can only be understood backwards..." So, if we wish to keep growing and developing in the right direction ourselves, and if we wish to achieve the goals we had set ourselves in our New Year's resolutions, writing a personal mid-year review is a great tool to do so! In this podcast I share a few tips on how to go about the evaluation.

"Evolving in relationships" in the part 3 of this conversations we delve into how our contribution to the relationship changes and the imbalance caused if our partner is not moving in parallel with us. Also for the very first time we have a guest on the show! Listen in to find out who it is😉 Lastly to mention in passing but non the lesser blessings on blessings to everyone healing childhood imprints that have manifested as poor relationship choices, reactivity, emotional triggers, attachment style, over functioning, physical pain, nervous system dysfunction, approval seeking, people pleasing, poor boundaries and settling. The journey is messy but in the end healing truly does arrive.

Evolving in relationships is a process and some parts of it are hard; but as hard as they may be repair does eventually take place. Whether its mending the broken bits to create a better partnership, setting of boundaries or agreeing to disagree we owe it to ourselves first .For the sake of our general betterment as we continue to build capacity for our overall wellbeing.

There are usually 3 parts to a relationship. The beginning,the middle and the end. Unfortunately most often than not we tend to confuse a relationship “ending” for a relationship “changing” whereas it is still in the middle even though it may be taking on a different form to what we've previously experienced.Just because we don’t like the change in form does not mean the relationship has ended. Lets break it down in part 1 of 3 in 'Evolving in relationships'