by Dan Collinson | April, 2017 | Julie Ostrow, self-development
Is happiness a feeling or a knowing? Is it some fleeting feeling we all strive to achieve? According to Merriam-Webster dictionary, happiness is “a state of well-being and contentment.” Can a person be continually happy while also facing struggles or experience pain...
by Dan Collinson | April, 2017 | Relationships, self-development
As I sit on the plane back to Dubai after my quarterly visit to Iran to visit my kids, I think of all the ways that laughing with my kids has helped our relationship. My situation is slightly different as my kids don’t live with me and I only see them for a week at a...
by Dan Collinson | March, 2017 | Education, EMAPP Portugal
“Seeding Values” & Positive Education “Semear Valores”/ Seeding Values (“SV”) is the premise and the name of the program that is being implemented in a school in Cascais, Portugal, with 50 children. The program is born from the will of a mother – with an...
by Dan Collinson | March, 2017 | Julie Ostrow, Relationships
My mom would have been my rock, my support system, my encourager… …If I had more time with her… When I needed her the most, she was dying. Losing your mother A 25-year-old needs her mother. I still need my mom. Why did I get jipped and left motherless? Mothering...
by Dan Collinson | March, 2017 | Relationships, self-growth
February was the month of LOVE and while that has been awesome for some it’s maybe been a totally different story for others – including me. I chose to break up with my boyfriend the day before my birthday, which is 2 days before Valentines Day – now this is hard but...