by Lesley Lyle | January, 2019 | Homelessness
In the first part of this blog about homelessness, I discussed some of the causes and what we can do to help people who find them in this situation. Homelessness continues to be a worldwide issue. In this blog, I am going to discuss the cycle of homelessness and...
by Lesley Lyle | January, 2019 | resilience
Background On December 3, 2017 I suffered what they called a catastrophic injury breaking my right ankle while playing soccer/football, (for the purposes of this blog, this sport will be referred to in this way in order to be truly international). I broke my fibula...
by Lesley Lyle | December, 2018 | hope
I recently found myself telling a work colleague that hope was everything in my life and was surprised by what I’d said as soon as the words left my mouth. On reflection, I discovered that indeed hope has, and still is, everything in my life. Hope has pulled me...
by Lesley Lyle | December, 2018 | compassion
I have spent a lot of my adult life being puzzled about the whole premise of this thing we call “self-esteem”. What is it actually, and how can we so easily move from having a lot of it, to not having much. It always seemed precarious, as if my appreciation of myself...
by Lesley Lyle | November, 2018 | Emotions
A few years ago, I discovered that I am a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP). One of the key traits of an HSP is that our emotions are tuned a lot higher than the average person which brings about a number of challenges in life, especially in social situations and...
