Browsing Archive November, 2015
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Family 781
True Role Models – From ‘Being a Good Man’ to Taking True Responsibility for My Choices
I remember growing up as a young boy and watching people around me, particularly the men. My first role model was my Dad. He was a strong man ...
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Global Issues 1,026
Refugees
“Another boat with Refugees found capsized, 55 dead, many of them small children”. (News Headlines) As I walked on one of the treadmills at my local gym today, ...
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Family 991
Making Time and Space … Just Being Me
I spent most of my life trying to make time and space for me, to be by myself. I would work really hard to create this space and ...
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Family 748
Christmas and Children and Being Together
With Christmas fast approaching, as always it is time for reflection. My partner and I are the parents of five young children and before we went shopping last ...
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Family 719
My Father and His Reflection
My father passed over almost 6 years ago, but very rarely does he come into my thoughts. Recently in a conversation with a friend who was talking about ...
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Exercise & Sport 694
Healing my Exercise Addiction and Adrenal Exhaustion
My experience of exercising over the last 35 to 40 years, would be to say that when taken to great lengths it can become an addiction – like ...
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Male Relationships 794
Appreciating Men
In the past I can honestly say that I had little to no genuine appreciation for men. I used to see men more for the roles they played, ...
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Sexism 693
Gender Equality — It Starts With Me Now
Recently an opportunity presented for me to take a deeper look at whether I was living gender equality in my day-to-day life as a woman. As women, not ...