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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
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UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSION
Many of us have been there. A dark, dark place. A long tunnel. So long that you cannot see the light at the end of it. You have no clue...
Michaela Patel
Mar 2, 20185 min read
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THE 'PERFECT' PARENTING SHOW
How do you know you are doing a good job of parenting? We are our children's VISUAL, LIVE EXAMPLE, based on which they form their beliefs...
Michaela Patel
Aug 20, 20176 min read
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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
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STRENGTH IN YOUR WEAKNESS
We find it hard to accept our weaknesses only if we (unknowingly) BELIEVE that we are weak... Why? Because the pain we already carry,...
Michaela Patel
Jul 13, 20172 min read
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FINDING HAPPINESS 2
Sometimes the best place to start is to realise that you don't know. That you don't even know who you are. That you don't understand love...
Michaela Patel
Jun 11, 20174 min read
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FINDING HAPPINESS 1
A very good friend of mine had asked me: 'So how did you find true happiness?' I decided to dive deep under the surface of my...
Michaela Patel
Jun 4, 20174 min read
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'DO YOU LOVE ME?'
‘Do you really love me?’ we ask others like our life depends on it. And it often does… We deem this question the alpha and omega of our...
Michaela Patel
Feb 12, 20173 min read
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ARE YOU NICE?
'Nice' because you want to be liked, OR because it reflects who you truly are and how you deep down feel about yourself? Nice because you...
Michaela Patel
Jan 4, 20173 min read
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DEPTH OF CONNECTION - THE COMMUNICATION
What kind of space opens up for you when you come to communicate your wants and needs to your partner? Expressing ourselves isn't always...
Michaela Patel
Nov 23, 20163 min read
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THE MYTH OF FORGIVENESS
Forgiveness is an act of LOVE, as much as holding onto resentment is an act of FEAR. So let me explain... When we forgive, we say 'I...
Michaela Patel
Sep 20, 20162 min read
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LOVE-SCAM RELATIONSHIP 2
But then, one day sooner or later, comes a DISAGREEMENT. It may be a genuine, or a provoked one by the narcissist him/herself. You...
Michaela Patel
Apr 3, 20165 min read
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DO YOU REALLY KNOW YOUR EGO?
One of my family members told me recently 'I don't have NO EGO!' She proclaimed that teaching self-love and self-respect is selfish,...
Michaela Patel
Mar 10, 20164 min read
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FEAR NOT
"You are not your fear." What does it really mean? I asked myself. My fear comes from me, it is part of me....it must BE who I AM, no? If...
Michaela Patel
Mar 4, 20164 min read
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THE ROAD OF LIFE 1
How come some of us are happy, yet others are not, when we all started with the exact same potential? We all have the potential to be the...
Michaela Patel
Feb 4, 20163 min read
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VICTIM
The only way to a TRUE love is through honesty. Admitting that you feel hurt by life, that you feel somehow incomplete. The only way you...
Michaela Patel
Jan 27, 20163 min read
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