Category: personal development

• The Dictionary of Life: Revised and Illustrated

  

  Each of us at birth is give a blank book within which to write significant words. Words that reflect our life experiences. As we grow and learn, we fill the pages, often unconsciously, with words. For many of us, adoptee or not, the words may be sad, angry, hurtful, reflections of pain, grief and confusion.…

  Claire Maria Ford

  April 29, 2023

  adoption, authenticity, personal development

  language, learning, life, motivation, personal development, reflections

• One Crisis, Three Questions

  

  Going into Week 8 of confinement, how’s the morale? I don’t know for you, but for me it’s been such a roller-coaster of emotions! Sometimes, I feel short-tempered and irritable (especially when watching the news or reading other people’s reactions to government decisions). Then I swing to frustration at not being able to go running…

  Claire Maria Ford

  May 1, 2020

  confinement, covid19, growth mindset, new world, personal development, self-care, teaching, Uncategorized, workplace wellbeing

  celebrations, confinement, learning, mental health, online teaching, pema chodron, quanrantine, reflections, teachers, teaching; esl, transitions

• Clarity in confinement?

  

  It’s important to say things as they are. Love is the opposite of avoidance. And so, it is important to be able to say things as they are, beginning with our fears. (Boris Sirbey) I read that piece of wisdom this morning in a LinkedIn article entitled Le hamster épris de ciel bleu (The Hamster…

  Claire Maria Ford

  April 10, 2020

  Boris Sirbey, connecting, covid19, Culture, esl, failure, family, family life, goal-setting, growth, growth mindset, initiative, leadership, Mindfulness, motivation, personal development, progress, quarantine, responsibility, self-care, stress management, teaching, workplace wellbeing

  brené brown