The Journey Within

• Today, I (Mandisa) am sharing a personal experience with forgiveness.
• Forgiveness of the other person or self-forgiveness is a tough and difficult thing to do especially when the hurt or pain is deep.
• I share a method that I have come across via meditation that has helped me slowly and gently forgive myself and those who have caused me harm
• Do listen and let me know of your thoughts.

Love
Mandisa

• We continue chatting about the role the environment play in our lives whether at home or work this week.
• We are all about taking full responsibility for our role in every scenario... even when it comes to our environment 
• This week we ask the questions:
• Do we research the environment we want to work in to see if it support our values or not?
• Once we're already in an environment, can we change the environment or influence the environment?
• Do we do the exercise of what's within our control in any environment and what's outside our control and what's making it hard for us to thrive in this environment before we jump ship?

Do have a listen and let us know your thoughts.

Love
Thuli & Mandisa

• It is easy to blame things outside of us for what's happening to us or what has happened to us. 
• The difficult thing to do is to take the journey inwards and ask ourselves what role do we or did we play in creating an environment that is detrimental to our well-being. 
• Going inwards vital in helping us take full responsibility for our environment, our actions and inactions.
• This week we ask 3 important questions that can help us respond to the environment we find ourselves in:
• Question 1: Do I want to be here?
• Question 2: What are my values?
• Question 3: What's my current reality?  What are the values of my environment vs my personal values and can these values meet each other halfway?

Listen in and let us know what you think..

Love
Thuli & Mandisa

Today we use the analogy of cornflakes and muesli to differentiate the types of people we have in our lives. 

What do the "cornflakes" people offer to our lives vs the "mueslis"?  

Which one are you to the people around you?

Listen in and lets talk.

Love Always
Thuli & Mandisa

• What can we learn from co-existing with those who have different views, beliefs to us? 
• What can we learn from the different feelings that we have within ourselves? 
• listen in and let us know your views

Love Thuli & Mandisa

• Today we chat about what it's like to be the only one in a relationship seeking therapy. 
• What no one tells you about the fact that once one person has done the work, yet the environment and the other partner has not shifted...then what?

We had fun during this episode, and as usual we shared our therapy journeys.

Tell us what you think?

Love
Thuli & Mandisa

This is not an easy podcast topic to tackle especially 'cos Thuli & I are parents and as much as we love our kids, we are also awake of the boundaries that need to be set as the kids get older. Our roles as parents are vital yet not all-inclusive - we can vouch for our kids however where do we draw the line?  Can we vouch for them as being good partners / lovers/husbands/wives to other people?

Listen to our view on this.

Drop a comment/suggestion 

Love
Thuli & Mandisa 

Self-forgiveness is the hardest process that we each have had to do in our healing journey.  Sometimes we find it easy to forgive others and relish the thought of someone else forgiving us however when we have to forgive ourselves, it becomes a whole new conversation and we just do not know where to start.

This week Mandisa ask a question that has helped her in her healing journey whenever she is triggered or observes a situation that stirs something in her: "What is it about my internal state that this person is bringing to my attention?"

Your thoughts on self-forgiveness are always welcomed.

Love 
Thuli & Mandisa

This week we tackle the "pleasure" topic.  

How does the conversation that parents sometimes struggle to have with us as children when it comes to sex affects how we relate to sex, intimacy and pleasure as a whole?  What has your experience been?  We share our experiences and have some fun with this topic.

Listen in and let us know what your thoughts are.  

Love
Thuli & Mandisa

In this episode we dive into three key areas:
1.  The power of writing things down whether negative emotions or positive emotions
2.  The power of asking "why" when facing challenging circumstances
3.  The power of self-forgiveness

We share our thoughts on the key areas above and we use our experience to bring light to the small victories and the challenges that we still need to face and ultimately overcome in our healing journey.

Have a listen and let us know what you think?

Love 
Thuli & Mandisa