Author: Nina

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Read more about the article A Lifetime of Learning
Personal development

A Lifetime of Learning

"Once you stop learning, you start dying." Albert Einstein This true statement begs us to open our minds to more. No matter your age you are here to love and learn. The lessons in love and the process of deepening knowledge and ideas are vital. Human development spans a lifetime and cannot be stilted or compartmentalized with a begin and end time when it comes to presence, knowledge and learning. Do you want to live as…

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June 26, 2018
Read more about the article Create Well-Being in a Chaotic World
Well-Being

Create Well-Being in a Chaotic World

"Remain centered within yourself instead of joining the reckless chaos around you." Nina Sidell, M.A. Imagine living your life one moment at a time with focus and presence, while giving your "Sacred Self" the care you need. What would your life look and feel like if you lived this way? Times have changed and they are continually changing. The pace, topics, risks, and realities are ever-challenging and frightening. Even in that scenario, you are responsible for…

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June 15, 2018
Read more about the article Honoring the Sacred Self
Self-Love

Honoring the Sacred Self

"The sacred space that dwells within the self remains true and strengthened when lovingly honored." Nina Sidell We are all born with certain fundamental and alienable rights according to spiritual and constitutional laws. As we come into being and exist over time, each person is gifted with the right to life, happiness, and to explore, express, and honor the nature of their existence. Life is a sacred gift. Knowing your worth as a unique person is…

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June 4, 2018
Read more about the article What Makes You Feel Safe & Secure?
Empowerment / Personal development

What Makes You Feel Safe & Secure?

How do you feel day-to-day and year-to-year? When you stop, look and listen to the world around you, what makes you feel content, safe and secure? You are aware of the extreme challenges facing all of us today and it is your choice in any given moment how you (want to) respond. Today’s world is filled with speed, chaos, fear, uncertainty, violence, natural disasters, and lack of control. Living in a complex, tumultuous world raising constant threats to peace and well-being affect people’s overall stress response, health, relationships and progress.

It is documented that many diseases stem from stress and we need to find ways to create positive change in the world and within ourselves to avoid that.  (more…)

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May 18, 2018
Read more about the article What is Your Super Power?
Empowerment / Personal development / Personal Empowerment

What is Your Super Power?

Some aspects of our culture and many family dynamics do not encourage inner strength, however our sense of personal power is valid and necessary, especially to navigate the world we live in today. A person’s strengths are unique to them and are wonderful to discover and acknowledge across a lifetime. Let’s call your inner strengths, “Super Powers”! Who’s to say they’re not?

Inner strength can include: natural talents and gifts (which we all have), healthy self-worth, a positive and resilient attitude, determination and fortitude, intelligence, humor, attractiveness, being loving, caring, grateful, forgiving, open-minded, clever, brave, patient, kind, and much more. Inner strength can be reflected in subtle ways, like possessing sensitivity, inner beauty, and a quiet confidence.

Whatever parts of you that encourage your uniqueness, help you relate well and succeed, or give you reason to grow and develop are your personal “Super Powers”. (more…)

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April 20, 2018
Read more about the article We’ve Forgotten How to Keep Our Children Safe!
child advocacy / Conscious parenting / Parenting

We’ve Forgotten How to Keep Our Children Safe!

In these times and over the course of time, we have lost some of our vital human values. In particular the societal importance placed upon the family as well as the protection and guidance of children have gone awry.  In our society, children are subjected to more than overly adult, boundary-less, life-threatening, and intolerable circumstances.

Everywhere you look and listen these days, there are frightening events, (more…)

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April 17, 2018