This incredibly comprehensive guide will give you all the information you need to know about Protection Orders. “Knowledge is Power” and when you are trying to navigate a system that sometimes seems impossible to understand and at the same time you are fearing for your life, or on an emotional roller coaster, it is useful to be as prepared as …
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Simplify
In an age of information overload, it makes sense that the only way to counter overload is with focus. Information competes for attention. Focus hones the attention on what is important. But achieving this clarity and focus seems nearly impossible when everything around us is clambering for our attention. I loved watching Marie Kondo, on Netflix. For those of you …
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Domestic Abuse, Protection Orders and Exit Plans
For the legal definition of gender based violence and domestic abuse, how to go about obtaining a protection order as well as how to strategise an exit, Charlie Bezuidenhout-Hollingworth has put together another simple and extremely easy guideline that provides clarity and hope for a better tomorrow. Charlie grew up in a home with an abusive father and she has …
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“Self Mastery” for me by me
The journey of Self or Personal Mastery is a life long one and one of the greatest gifts we can ever give ourselves. • Personal Mastery is our ability to realise that life, people and situations are multi-faceted and that our opinion and perceptions (cognitive bias) are but one part of the bigger picture. • Personal Mastery allows us to …
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The Double-Bind
I have been thinking about how many of our African women are in business but don’t see it as such. The “Antie” doing catering for community events and making enough money to feed her extended family. The “Gogo” watching the kids after school for the neighbours and her own grand children, the seamstress who is the “go to” when beautiful …