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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.

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...

Michaela Patel

Mar 11, 20184 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...

Michaela Patel

Feb 11, 20183 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...

Michaela Patel

Nov 26, 20172 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...

Michaela Patel

Nov 12, 20174 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...

Michaela Patel

Aug 11, 20175 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...

Michaela Patel

Jul 22, 20173 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...

Michaela Patel

Jun 28, 20174 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...

Michaela Patel

May 21, 20171 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...

Michaela Patel

May 3, 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...

Michaela Patel

Apr 26, 20172 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...

Michaela Patel

Apr 9, 20174 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...

Michaela Patel

Apr 2, 20172 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...

Michaela Patel

Mar 5, 20173 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...

Michaela Patel

Mar 5, 20172 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...

Michaela Patel

Dec 11, 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,...

Michaela Patel

Nov 15, 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...

Michaela Patel

Sep 26, 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...

Michaela Patel

Aug 17, 20163 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...

Michaela Patel

Aug 17, 20162 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...

Michaela Patel

May 2, 20167 min read