I’d want to start with what I took from Iyanla Vanzant: People violate your boundaries because you don’t tell them how to behave in your life and they run a mock in your life because they don’t have clear boundaries. Here’s another one, in case you’ve missed this article https://tdenchpatel.com/sayings-advice-or-certain-things-said-by-people-that-changed-the-dynamics-for-me/ It’s not selfish to put…
Iyanla Vanzant I forgive myself for believing I should have done better when I didn’t know how because as long as you think you should have done better, you’ll be guilty when the truth is you didn’t know how. Men think the truth, but women feel it and it may not make any sense whatsoever,…
What do you think of when you see this question? Do you think that this means you have to be more i.e. on a grand scale? Nope, you can start with living your truth today with the small things in life. What do I mean by living your truth? Living your truth equals living your…
See when I was travelling around the world on my own I often looked at some amazing places and thought about the people I left behind when I chose the decision to go out of my comfort zone. I looked at these places and sometimes found myself wondering about my existence. I often said, “This…
Over dinner, one of these evenings me and my father were having a chat. I had to write this article and it was on my mind for two weeks now. What was and is incredible was that I thought I was the only one thinking about it and little did I know that my father…
I never used to believe in this a couple of years ago even when my mother used to do a few of these things. It was only when I started travelling and meeting people from different countries that I realised that they too were doing things to cleanse the energy in their home space. Some…
While I was growing up in the apartheid regime Indians seems to always be in the middle. Not to black for something or not too white for something. It became frustrating especially when you had nothing to do with apartheid. My challenges were the same as any middle-class white South African my age after we…
You know a lot of the most intelligent women or the most successful women say, “Don’t let anyone know you’re hurting, show them a smile and make them wonder how you did it,” some say, “Don’t show people your weaknesses they will use it as a weapon.” It’s tricky right? Men prefer authenticity these days…
What is profanity? (taken from Wikipedia) “Profanity is socially offensive language, which may also be called curse words or swearing (British English), cuss words (American English and Canada), swear words, crude language, coarse language, oaths, blasphemous language, vulgar language, lewd language, choice words, or expletives. Used in this sense, profanity is language that is generally considered by certain parts of a culture to be strongly impolite, rude or offensive. It can show a debasement of someone or something, or be…
You know I wasn’t sure how this article will go down and I have been holding myself back from writing it for months now. I don’t have any statistics for you or research. I only have what I’ve observed from being a teenager (through the story which I’ve written i.e. The South African: True Colours…