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Our toxic masculine culture is harming our children  -  children's intuition.

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  Historically, we have not provided safe spaces for our children to express their intuitive feelings, their gut. This practice must not continue. Not allowing space for our children to explore and nurture their intuition harms their ability to navigate the world successfully. It teaches them to dismiss their intuition to bypass their truths. To not learn to rely on or trust what they know to be true. To rely on others when they are competent themselves. To have a means to determine the difference between what is good for them and what will harm them.             Intuition is their internal support and guidance system. Without it, they are lost and alone. This is an area where our ‘sensitive’ children can shine but are often misunderstood.   Misdiagnosed, labelled as difficult, seen as complicated or unreasonable. Quite often, these children see and sense things other people do not. We are all empathic. We all understand e...

Making children happy in this toxic masculine culture

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  Who taught you how to deal with your emotions? I never considered this a question until my children started struggling with theirs.   I was a sensitive child. So, there was no one around who was more sensitive than me. There was no one emotionally aware enough to guide me. Everyone around me seemed hard, cold and distant. So, I suppressed it as much as possible, which made me lonely and frustrated. Suppressing this just meant it resurfaced decades later when I became a parent. It then took me nearly a decade to resolve this internally unresolved conflict, and such was the magnitude of my self-deception. Now, I'm here to share with you so you can learn from my mistakes and help you navigate this world successfully as a sensitive empath.   Often, as children, we are faced with emotionally illiterate people. Most people have never had any emotional awareness support, help, training, or guidance. So, how can you deal with your emotions if no one shows you how?   As adu...