by Lisa Pienaar | Jun 27, 2020 | Parenting
Divorce is probably one of the most stressful experiences for adults. Apart from the heartache, blame, guilt and all the other myriad of emotions both parties go through, there is the physical dividing up of the things that represent the life you had built together,...
by Lisa Pienaar | Apr 14, 2020 | Self Development, Stress Management
Each morning, I wake up and think about what I’m grateful for. I have a little stretch in bed, get up and wash my face. Before I can talk myself out of it, I try to do my morning sun salutations to wake up my body and my mind. For those of you who have never...
by Lisa Pienaar | Apr 14, 2020 | Self Development, Uncategorized
Wow! Does everyone else out there feel like they blinked and the whole world changed? In one week, I went from full-time English teacher, rushing madly every morning to get my children to early morning AP Maths lessons, Orchestra rehearsal, going about my life in a...
by Lisa Pienaar | Feb 23, 2020 | Self Development
About ten years ago (maybe more, maybe less – I’ve been in the classroom a long time!), I started a Gratitude Practice in my class before each lesson. I’d noticed that the girls I teach would slump into class, whinging and complaining, and I wondered...
