by HelenaAnn | Sep 20, 2016 | Clear Communication, Conscious Parenting, Using Your Emotions
I found myself snapping at a cashier the other day. She was trying, like well-intentioned strangers do, to engage with my three year old. Which is great. But it ends up coming all wrapped up in expectation, and judgement, like so many of our adult interactions. So my...
by HelenaAnn | Mar 2, 2016 | Clear Communication, Enneagram, Practical Spirituality, Relationships
Understanding and accepting our differences actually helps us to see how we are the same. Does that sound strange? It is the best way I can describe how this reality has been coming to me lately. And has inspired this second post in my series on the agreement to...
by HelenaAnn | Dec 14, 2015 | Coaching, Practical Spirituality, Relationships
It is so tempting to try and save each other– whether in a romantic relationship, friendship, coaching relationship. When you care deeply for someone, and they lose site of themselves through an unhealthy relationship, depression, or addiction, etc. you want to...
by HelenaAnn | Mar 2, 2015 | Practical Spirituality
In my younger years I prided myself on being “low drama”. By which I meant that there weren’t a lot of skeletons in my closet, family turmoil, disasters, nightmare exes, emotional roller coasters, etc. Now, at 30, with a divorce, single motherhood, a couple of...
by HelenaAnn | Dec 17, 2013 | Enneagram, Practical Spirituality, Relationships
As babies, we are innocent, open, trusting. As we grow older we are hurt in various ways, and we hurt others. Things that are precious to us are desecrated, whether through abuse, cheating, theft, violence. We develop our own private brand of shame, and may feel...
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