May - 2019

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Mind Mapping for Self Awareness: A quick guide to find your calling and pursuing your dreams

So, you’ve completed your training and maybe have a diploma, some certifications and internships under your belt. You may be anxious and ready to embark on a new chapter of your life. Getting into the world of work, or perhaps wanting to shift your career path. The challenge is now to establish a plan that is not only consistent with your core values but will give you real success and fulfillment. What is your calling? As I always tell my students, before you map out your rou

Using EQ to Put the Mom-Guilt to Bed

When my daughter was a little over two months old, I went back to my full time job. I lived an hour and a half away from work, and the hours in publishing were long and grueling. 30 minutes in the morning, and a goodnight kiss to my sleeping baby was all the time I spent with her during weekdays, and I tried to make up for the time during weekends. She hardly saw me that it broke my heart when her first words were “Lola (grandma)” instead of “Mama”—which maybe for others woul

Mothers Don't Always Know Best

Now before you start throwing curses my way for writing this on Mothers Day, give me the benefit of the doubt. I will speak from my 30 years of being my momma's daughter and I say it with certainty that she doesn't always know best. And I dare go further and say that it's true for ALL mothers too. My mom became a mother when she was 23. I cannot even imagine being a mom when I was 23. I honestly still can't imagine being a mom right now. However, 10 years of being a teacher h