Julia Pereira Dias • Permaculture Womens Guild

Why It Is So Hard To Love Ourselves

When we struggle with frustrations, overwhelm, anger, anxiety, our family members or keeping our socks together in pairs, there is this one advice we hear often:

How to Have Difficult Conversations

How do we have difficult conversations? Any time we expect a conversation to be(come) difficult, it is because we assume that either the other person will reject what we propose or they will be hurt by what we share with them. I want to talk about the latter.

Benefits of Purging

Did you know that the primary definition of purging — before involving your bowels or getting rid of stuff — is this: a : to clear of guilt b : to…

The Right Question

For most of my career as advisor for Results Based Monitoring (RBM) I supported government and NGO teams in changing their perspective and approach to…

Confronting Shame — The Last Door

By Julia Pereira Dias Shame spits into your romantic dinner. Shame coughs blood on the hands that reach out. Shame laughs its ugly cackle at…

The Best Advice

By Julia Pereira Dias Aren’t we the selfless ones? “My husband could save so much time, if only he’d listen to me,” sighs Diane. She…

Are You Willing To Receive?

By Julia Pereira Dias Most of us are primarily concerned with the question: what can I get? That question is futile. You can have it…

Am I Racist?

The first question I have to ask myself is am I racist?

How to Free Yourself from Expectations

By Julia Pereira Dias Nothing causes as much frustration as unmet expectations. In fact, I dare say that every single time we suffer, get mad,…

What is the Price for Belonging?

By Julia Pereira Dias A lot of our expectations are not our own. Culture shapes what we think about the world, about what people, including…

Why It’s Worth to Surrender to Those Annoying Little Moments in Life

By Julia Pereira Dias We’re told that everything happens for a reason. But really, what good could possibly lie in those everyday irritating instances such…

6 Steps to Befriend Your Fears and Get a Life

By Julia Pereira Dias I could start the article by suggesting that the corona virus was designed and spread by the toilet paper industry, but…

5 Ways to Overcome Despair and Have Fun Doing So

By Julia Pereira Dias They say the best way to avoid your own tantrum is to count to ten. It’s never worked for me. This…

Everyone is Fake!

By Julia Pereira Dias Few terms get the heat up as quickly as ‘fake’ these days. Everybody hates the fakes. Except here is the truth:…

Have We Reached the End of Positive Thinking?

By Julia Pereira Dias So, I hear that positive thinking has fallen from grace. It has “brainwashed [us] into thinking that that confidence will eventually…