random thoughts of Thursday

When I was 8 I almost got kidnapped. My dad was running a company and after numerous anonymous phone calls, bomb threats (which were a serious thing in the 90s) and envelopes with flour in them, mimicking powder-like anthrax, we’d occasionally find in the mailbox, the very…

Usually the feeling of not belonging, and being rejected is directly related and born from fears and behaviours learnt in childhood. For this reason, it is my belief that forgiving ones parents is a huge and final step in releasing energetic blockages and reaching enlightenment and wholeness. The true meaning of a curse is an energy blockage that…

A cruel and bizarre experiment

Here’s a cruel and bizarre experiment: find a child you only tangentially know.

Maybe she is the friend of your daughter who spends the night sometimes but whom you’ve never really talked to. Or maybe she is your teenage son’s girlfriend whom you…

Losing Trust

It took me many years of promiscuity, binge drinking, marriage, divorce, an unfortunate affair and one dysfunctional relationship to realize that it wasn’t growing up as a child of divorce that screwed me up. It was growing up as the victim of an unscrupulous manipulative predator — coupled with the…

Many of us fail to understand, or realise how the behaviours and attachment patterns that we learnt in childhood with our parents, formulate our experiences later on in life. These are the templates that teach us how to love, and how to receive love, how we understand love given from others. For those of us who have had destructive childhoods, or not…

Ten Statistics to Make You Cry

…if you care about children, that is.

I do. I think children are the roots of our society, and when we damage them, we kill our hope for a decent future.

1. Children (under the age of 18) account for 67% of all sexual assault…