Böcker av Retha Rossouw

Dealing with Great LossWhen we take the time to write things down, we have a tendency to process our thoughts more efficiently. This workbook is intended to help every individual dealing with a personal, unexpected personal loss of magnitude by giving them the opportunity to express their thoughts and feelings in writing.Be that grief related to death, divorce, losing your home, retrenchment or being diagnosed with a terminal illness. Losing a very special relationship or even losing a limb. Change that is permanent and unsalvageable has a way of throwing us all a curveball. We have a tendency to continue to mull emotions around in our own minds and eventually, these drive us to depression.Journaling has been heralded as a very effective way in which to deal with difficult emotions such as these. I have consequently compiled a personal workbook precisely for this specific purpose.A place where the individual can acknowledge every heart-breaking emotion and difficulty, experienced along their path to healing after a significant traumatic experience. This to reach a point of closure and then acceptance.With that said, it is always important to remember that healing is a process, not a procedure. It takes time and a lot of it in most cases. Furthermore, that there is no shame in tears, they make us fundamentally human. We don't always have to be strong as a rock.Together with that, remember that your feelings are more than very important, never disown that fact. It is a lot more beneficial to work with them, than what it is to try and ignore them.

We are bombarded with endless diets and programs to lose weight continuously? The most logical explanation would be that none of the one's offered works indefinitely. They work for a period and then they become too taxing, too restrictive or simply too weird to continue with. We all love all types of foods and to deny ourselves is to cause havoc. Prescriptions work but are often in direct conflict with what we actually like and love to eat. That is the whole problem, that we know full well that the only way to lose weight is to eat less, but we find ourselves unable to do so on a constant basis. Especially when never enters the arena. Never turns into all you want. Better to know you can eat whatever but sometimes you'll just have to wait until tomorrow.What if there was a way? One in which you could eat the foods you like, in moderation and maintain your ideal weight. I believe there is such a way if you find yourself willing to practise a bit of self-control and self-discipline. You too can eat what you like and weigh what you want to, always. Imagine getting on the scale and knowing exactly what it will read. No surprises and no disappointment ever again. All this without exercising yourself into the ground every second day of the week. Never eating more than the recommended amount and still weighing more than what you want to? Then read my book, it just might provide the answer as to why.

Interpersonal relationships hinge on mutual respect for each other in order to be healthy relationships. Not only being verbally confessed but indeed shown in all actions towards one another. Respectful conduct breeds trust and without trust, there is no foundation of which to speak.Narcissistic individuals aim to keep all people under their control constantly by means of keeping them off balance. All actions are self-serving and little to no regard is given to the feelings of others. Unless we find a way to protect ourselves from such actions we are very much at risk. Constant emotional turmoil should not be something we choose to live with. For your own sake you have to make it stop.

How To, Why, What and All Those Pesky Questions We have so many questions daily. Things that creep up on us or jump out at us quite unexpectedly. None of us have all the answers but often, simply a different opinion casts an alternative light on a situation. None of us will ever know it all. One of the most difficult things in life becomes to please both society at large, and ourselves. The two often clash and not because we plan for them to. To be different or to have different convictions puts the individual at risk. Rejection by the majority becomes a very real phenomenon in such a case. We need to get to a place, where we do not feel forced to adopt the general consensus. A place where we feel comfortable to have our own opinion and to simply be ourselves. To chase and to strive for what is important to us. When we find that the majority have no appreciation, then that shouldn't matter to us in the degree to which it currently seems to. Such a place we have to create for ourselves then. By growing to be at peace with exactly how we as individuals find ourselves to be. We are each unique and different from each other which happens to be marvellous.This is a fact society needs to show more appreciation for in general. There always exists more than one way to think about anything. This book is not a prescriptive on how to make peace with yourself. It finds itself rather to be a thought provoker, asking individuals to reconsider their own perceptions. To make them think

You be you!This is what divorce is like, bottomless, alone and terrifying. There is nothing that can prepare you for the devastating emotional rollercoaster that follows total rejection... nothing. This is to say that if you didn't want a divorce, it wasn't on your personal itinerary, therefore.It is especially hard when you find yourself leaving, not by choice but by force, slow merciless abuse that is meant to drive you away and, eventually, does. This narrative is not meant for those who have suffered failed love relationships, or colourful affairs that went south, it is meant for those who are dealing with the destruction of decades. Decades of commitment, love and support given, being thrown back in your face with glee.This is a book about finding the best you, appreciating who you are, believing in who you know you have always been, and having compassion for yourself.