by Filippa Araki | Jul 22, 2020
This morning, as I was driving my daughter to school, a car was driving closer behind my car than I felt comfortable with. There seemed to be a sense of urgency in the driver. These days, rather than getting irritated or annoyed, if I can and if I’m not in a...
by Filippa Araki | Jul 3, 2020
When I was in my 30s, I was a food and nutrition evangelist. I’d had such health problems and changing my diet and way of eating transformed my health so I wanted everyone to experience it. I also had really strong beliefs about nutrition for conception, pregnancy and...
by Filippa Araki | Jun 7, 2017
Saturday night. Both kids went on a sleepover. We had the night to ourselves. This is good practice for when we become empty nesters, I thought. We decided to have a bath and started to talk about a novel that we’d both been listening to. Somehow the conversation...
by Filippa Araki | Mar 18, 2016
Compassionate Communication (also known as Nonviolent Communication or NVC for short) has profoundly changed my life or rather the way I experience my life – the quality of my relationships in my family, at work and in my community. This way of communicating has...
