Cynthia's blog

"What's the difference?"  I am often asked this question by highly educated, intelligent people for they are honestly confused when it comes to the subject of addiction.

I still read articles written by clever journalists doubting that addiction even exists ...

"It's just an excuse for poor behavior from people with no discipline" was one line I recently read.    Read more »

"Yes I am wise, but its wisdom born of pain".

 I was singing at the top of my voice driving my new luxurious dream car that I have recently bought for myself, when tears started to roll down my cheeks.  Read more »

Emotional infidelity can be as devastating as sexual infidelity to a relationship.

When our heart is not in it fully, but only partially ... any intimate relationship we are in will be compromised.  Read more »

Happily Ever After just Livin' the dream with the love of your life? Are these phrases you respond with if someone asks how you are? 

Or ...  do you file these statements in the too good to be true basket and dismiss them as naïve and unattainable for you or anyone for that matter?  Read more »

Build a Bridge in the Power of Now and Just do it!

For those of us recovering from seeking instant gratification in life, some of the self help, new age answers to life's challenges are confusing and a big ask to say the least!  Read more »

"And why would I want to thrash myself? I confusedly asked my running trainer as we stood in the cold air last night after a rigorous training session.  I actually felt my words vibrate up my throat as the maternal wisdom within me really wanted a common sense answer.

"Because it's fun, and that's what you do when you run" he responded genuinely after I asked him about keeping fit at middle age. Read more »

Home is where the heart is.  So Home Truths hit close to the heart and when they do, some of us get knocked to the floor.

Facing what is really going emotionally for many of us mere mortals is confronting and difficult to say the least. But unless we do we will not be able to know our own heart intimately.  Read more »

Discipline I once thought, was a practice for fearful losers, whom in my book who were not brave enough to live on the edge and take a risk.  This was, I am now pleased to report,  my albeit narrow and misinformed translation of this word. 

I used to confuse the word discipline with punishment, and consequently disliked this word immensely for the first three decades of my life.  It used to mean to me having no fun, being bossed around by someone else rules, trapped, bored and regimented.  Read more »

What is a Myth really these days? 

It's a popular belief or story that has become associated with a person, institution, or occurrence shared by a group to illustrate a cultural ideal.   It's a fiction or half-truth that forms part of an ideology.  Our ideology being the set of beliefs by which a group, family or society subscribes to but it can also be based on speculation that is imaginary. Read more »

Is there such a thing?

Feeling grief and feeing good simultaneously?

It hasn't happened for me yet.   But then, I am a long way off from sainthood and still must confess that I drop to my knees in dysfunctional despair from time to time.

Less and less these days, but it still happens every now and then.

Actually it happened just this weekend. Read more »