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I applaud you for making the effort in searching for the truth. It takes a great amount of courage and energy to say 'enough is enough' and go against your usual behaviour. Therefore I won't keep you any longer! My articles are 100% ad free and are a collection of my inner most realisations about love, relationships, life and happiness, put together for you to make sense of your own journey.


Michaela Patel
Mar 11, 20184 min read
SELF-WORTH AND RELATIONSHIPS
Do you have a healthy self-esteem? How does low self-worth show up in your relationships? Have you experienced lack of intimacy, no sense...
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Michaela Patel
Feb 11, 20183 min read
UNPLUGGED FROM LOVE
Everyone wants love. And you want it too! It is your most basic need. An inherent part of you, something that you ARE. With the start of...
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Michaela Patel
Nov 26, 20172 min read
DO YOU DESERVE RESPECT?
Who doesn't like to be respected? But what IS respect and can we earn respect by reaching certain age or status? In the FALSE world of...
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Michaela Patel
Nov 12, 20174 min read
PRICELESS RELATIONSHIP LESSONS
What have my past relationships taught me? That every person I engaged with was a reflection of where I was in life AT THAT POINT in...
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Michaela Patel
Aug 11, 20175 min read
THE POWER OF SURRENDER
Acceptance is an act of SELF-CARE. Accepting what IS is clearly advantageous, yet for many of us surrender represents a disadvantage or...
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Michaela Patel
Jul 22, 20173 min read
RELATIONSHIP GIVE OR TAKE
Relatioships aren't easy, are they? Relating to another implies constant negotiations. Push and pull. Give and take. Based on simple...
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Michaela Patel
Jun 28, 20174 min read
POSITIVE PARENTAL CONDITIONING?
How great, happy, loving and kind would our children be if we managed to flood their belief system with POSITIVE messages about...
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Michaela Patel
May 21, 20171 min read
WHAT I TELL MY CHILD
You are great and awesome. You were born loving, kind and generous. If others try to tell you otherwise - don't believe them. You are not...
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Michaela Patel
May 3, 20172 min read
ESCAPING YOU
Have you been told you are NEEDY? Do you fear solitude, hating to be alone? There is a reason you prefer to be with your partner all the...
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Michaela Patel
Apr 26, 20172 min read
LOVE COMES EASY 2
Why are we so keen on pretending? Why do we find it hard to show the real us to others? Because we believe that there is something the...
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Michaela Patel
Apr 9, 20174 min read
YOUR GUARDIAN ANGER
ANGER is such an everyday emotion. Yet we rarely know what to do with it. Similar to holding a loaded gun we often shoot ourselves in the...
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Michaela Patel
Apr 2, 20172 min read
UNDERSTANDING SELF-REJECTION 2
We are so eager to find a trustworthy partner, our Soulmate... We frantically seek someone who will love us because we dislike, even...
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Michaela Patel
Mar 5, 20173 min read
BOUNDARIES 3 - YOUR ANGER
Those whose boundaries have been consistently crashed on one end build a REACTIONARY boundary to overcompensate for the lack of space in...
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Michaela Patel
Mar 5, 20172 min read
BOUNDARIES 1 - YOUR KNOWLEDGE
Our carers were the creators (and destroyers, surprise-surprise!) of our boundaries, of what we allow and what we absolutely don't. For...
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Michaela Patel
Dec 11, 20163 min read
MANIPULATION AND RELATIONSHIPS 2
When you have no desire, nor need, to justify your dos and don'ts to anyone but YOU, you have established a solid relationship with...
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Michaela Patel
Nov 15, 20163 min read
DEPTH OF CONNECTION - THE RESPONSIBILITY
Relationships work as long as both partners want the same. When we are on the same page we feel we can take on the whole world together,...
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Michaela Patel
Sep 26, 20163 min read
PRACTICING SELF-LOVE
PRACTICING SELF-LOVE SIMPLY MEANS BECOMING OUR BEST FRIEND. It start with changing the way we see and behave towards ourselves by...
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Michaela Patel
Aug 17, 20163 min read
TRUE REFLECTION 2
2. When we lose it with our children, we rage. Naturally we need time and space to calm down, wanting them to acknowledge how much they...
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Michaela Patel
Aug 17, 20162 min read
TRUE REFLECTION 1
Parenting is very simple. Or it could be, if parents became PRESENT to how they act in the presence of their child. We think our children...
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Michaela Patel
May 2, 20167 min read
SELF-TALK ON LOVE & WORTH
A typical conversation of our insecure Self with our mature, wise Self, as most of us have experienced it. Which out of these two voices...
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