Words of Wisdom from My Mentor, Gwendolyn Jansma
If you are fortunate or strategic you will find a mentor who will guide and steer your life in directions you never imagined possible.
Relationship Building
marriage, couples, husband, wife, sex, healthy relationships, relationship tips, friendships
Relationship Fighting and 12 Tips to Do Relationship Repair
The probability of arguing or disagreeing in a love relationship. Some describe these moments as Relationship Fighting.
How to Prepare for Workplace Mental Illness
Teresa said, “Patricia, I would love to read some of your work on dealing with employees who are controlling, easily agitated and off the wall! It seems like my co-worker wants to get even with me for nothing. She starts yelling even if I dare to identify areas that could easily be improved. What are […]
Mind Your Ageing Process: Make Smart Choices
Yes, that is me in the photo, with my hubby. If you are a senior citizen, I hope you, too, take time to yuck it up! Fun and play help us keep healthy; help us with resilient ageing. Yet growing older has another side. In the last couple of years, I was introduced to eyesight […]
How Emotional Coaching can Fix Your Relationship
Years ago my father did not speak to me for six months. When our oldest daughter, Kelly was in jail (see the book, Love Her As She Is) she asked for bail money. After we said no, she did not speak to us for many months. When our youngest daughter told us about her diagnosis […]
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work – Book Summary
This summary of John Gottman’s book, The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work, highlights how his research can improve your relationship.
Not Feeling the Love? How the Five Love Languages Can Help
Every now and then our relationships could benefit from an examination. Of course, it begins with ourselves. We can check our generosity, honesty, kindness, compassion, appreciation, empathy, and love. As was written in the bible, “The greatest of these is love.” Gary Chapman, the family therapist and author of The Five Love Languages, provides a key […]
Coupleship on the Rocks? How to Decide to Stay or Leave
Years ago, my heart was deeply moved as Les and I shared dinner and personal stories with our dear friends, Judy and Tink. Judy Armstrong, a multi-talented artist who excelled in acting, singing, songwriting, and dancing, had once fallen head over heels for Tink, a versatile artist himself, skilled in acting, singing, dancing, and choreography. […]
How to Start a Mastermind Group
Your business and personal success can be strengthened and accelerated through the support of others. Mastermind groups provide a useful structure for such purposes. That has been my experience and that of many of my professional speaking colleagues. I have enjoyed and benefited from a number of mastermind groups–an international one, a personal one, […]
How to Help Men and Women Build Resilience
In North America, Medscape reports, on average, women live 5.3 years longer than men. As a wife, mother to one son and grandmother to 3 grandsons, I hope there is a solution to this discouraging fact. I wonder, Are there reasons women appear to build resilience easier than men? Certainly, Pat O’Gorman, author of Dancing Backward in […]
People Boost with Acknowledgement, Appreciation and Encouragement
Boosting other people costs nothing, takes little energy and will help those at work and home feel and function better.
Are You REALLY in An Abusive Relationship?
Too often one adult declares that another adult is being abusive. Before you decide you are in a bullying or abusive relationship and call the Abuse Police, get a handle on what is really happening. OK? Abuse is mistreatment, by any other person or persons, that violates a person’s human and civil rights. Children […]