by Peter Volkofsky | Author & Life Coach | Jul 17, 2012 | sophia
A happy marriage can be like a beautiful beach on a nice day: a death trap for a spectator who knows nothing about rips, storms, rocks and swimming and … the dreadful and wonderful secrets of voyaging an entire ocean. by Peter Volkofsky | Author & Life Coach | Jul 16, 2012 | sophia
Parents must be careful about the way they handle the instinct to shelter their children from criticism, from—in your face, no way of denying it—failure, and from being confronted by the successes of friends and siblings. Yes, it’s cruel and cheap to cultivate a... by Peter Volkofsky | Author & Life Coach | Jul 12, 2012 | Quotes
‘A gentle tongue is a tree of life but peverseness in it breaks the spirit … the mind of the righteous ponders how to answer but the mouth of the wicked pours out evil things.’ (Proverbs 15: 4, 28 rsv) by Peter Volkofsky | Author & Life Coach | Jul 9, 2012 | sophia
When you’re being patient with someone who’s wandering down into some messy and immature hole it’s easy to get mixed up about whether you’re showing grace or actually just patronising their fears and failures. In other words, not doing the very... by Peter Volkofsky | Author & Life Coach | Jul 8, 2012 | Quotes
It’s never a compliment to be a well adjusted member of a dysfunctional society