Michele Alignay: Recent Episodes
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Dr. Michele Alignay is a family life specialist, registered psychologist, speaker, consultant and an award-winning author. Through talks, trainings and sound content she works with schools, companies and organizations on family life and well-being.
One essential in relationships is to be our own person, to know who we are and learn how to draw the line. All these why we relate and love others. Ang hirap madalas, pero pwede! Love convos at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele
If love mo isang tao? Bakit nakaka stress pa rin? Can love and stress co-exist? How to have healthy relationships despite stress? This at #CoffeeBreak w/ #DrMichele
Relationships really matter! How we value our relationships makes it in our lives! One of the most favorite question is, "Is this real love?" or "What if I'm no longer 'in-love?" Real talk at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele
Minsan talaga, nangyayari to! Yung, wala ka nang ibigay! Ikape natin tong topic sa #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele.
Ano ba mas stressful, may kasama ka (na di mo maasahan), or knowing you are on your own and you need to manage it all? Let's see what role clarity or not having any has do with family stress. Let's #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele
I'm celebrating being a mom of teenagers! It is a journey indeed. Let's sit down and understand our teens, as we understand ourselves in the process! Kape tayo at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele!
Appreciate your Mental Health! As we celebrate World Mental Health Day, value better your mental health and well-being. Let's sit down for a conversation about staying mentally well at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele!
We are both body and spirit! So we care for our whole beings to be well, nourish our spiritualty and to live a bigger life of purpose! Know how you can care for your spiritual life at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele.
How do you cope when burdened, stressed and anxious? Let's check if your coping skills are really helping you, or it's just band-aid for the issues? See you at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele.
How you perceive work and productivity, is what actually transpires in your life. Pero minsan di naman lahat healthy. Your well-being may be suffering if you are unaware and don't help yourself! Usapang #CoffeeBreak w/ #DrMichele.
"True You" and "Ideal You"! Are you true to the person God created you to be? Who are you really taking care of? Let's check in our adult worth and identity at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele.
Sungit, sumpong, and overly sensitive, etc.? Moms, and for us all, we all have days when we 're tipping off already and our anger and other unpleasant emotions are haywire! How can self-care helps? Tune it at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele
Overwhelmed? In the midst of difficulties? Experiencing painful matters? We can allow distress to consume us, or we can shift caring for ourselves even if life is unfair. Daming hugot at kwento to share with at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele!
When it rains it pours - either blessings or challenges. While we go through unpleasant situations, we still need to actively have self-care! Learn how You can care for you despite difficulties at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele
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When we're unwell, worried, anxious or sick, we drag ourselves to show up! Let's be more bolder in doing what is needed to show up for #SelfCare, even if at times so hard! It just be what is needed to win the day! Learn how we can show up to care for you at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele!
In sickness and in health - we need Self-Care! Let me journey with you this August (my fave month), to learn more how we can truly take care of ourselves! Tune in at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele #CareforYouSeries.
The topic we avoid talking about! Yet the more we do not deal with it, the more problems may happen. So let's normalize conversations and know better about mental health so we can help ourselves better! #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele
Issues and concerns, even conflicts, are part of relationships and of life. Di yan tinatakbuhan! You need to face and deal with it! How to confront issues? See you at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele!
What is there such thing as healthy and unhealthy stress? How can we tell and how can we rise above it? We miss sitting down over good convo! So see you at #CoffeeBreak w/ #DrMichele!
Who are you kinder to, yourself or others? Do you treat yourself the way you treat a dear friend? In the too many to mention happenings and feelings around us, how are we showing compassion for ourselves? Let's reflect about this at #CoffeeBreak w/ #DrMichele!
Too many emotions all over the place! Are you allowing yourself to admit, to name and really feel - even if unpleasant? Baka feel mo ang usapang Feelings and how to manage it at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele
Amidst changes and challenges of motherhood, how to we nurture our relationships with ourselves, as we care for our child?
Let's keep the mom spirit thriving at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele
Motherhood is a different world altogether. It has high and lows, changes and challenges. Let's celebrate moms at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele
We all experience loss in life, and some moms like me - loss their babies. We go through pain only us can understand. So join me as I share my own journey and how I lived life after losing my first born.
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Being too critical about yourself is unhealthy. Learn to be truly more accepting and loving to your one true self! How to be really You?
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We give ourselves permission to dance, or to feel. yet do we give permission for us to really like our true self - flaws and all? Give yourself permission to reflect over a quick chat at #CoffeeBreak w/ #DrMichele.
Election-related issues are not the issues, it is the depth of communication among families and close groups. So, how can we understand how others communicate and how we can deal with them? Let's #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele.
In times when issues are looming and emotions are high due to election-related matters, how is your communication with family and close friends? Something to think and talk about at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele.
If you are being nagged by the question, 'Who Am I in this Relationship?' then better do an objective self-check. Start evaluating yourself, and valuing your worth as a person! Know more at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele
"Di ko na kilala sarili ko." "Who will I be without you?" Sounds familiar? We hear this either in loving relationships, yet, is it healthy? It is how relationships should be? Let's unpack it this week at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele.
No one size fits all for us women to pursue a career we love, while we care for our family (or other things). Let's discuss how we can be the best of who we can be - work, family and life-mission, only at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele.
I heard many asked, 'How to have a career and raise a family'? Can women really balance both? Let's reflect about this at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele.
We have unique traits and roles, along with our inner strength and wisdom, that we should nature as women! Let's nurture the woman we are via #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele
Women, you are wonderful! Let's celebrate us women, and the women in your lives! Let's have real conversations on how we can appreciate women's wonder and innate wisdom! This week at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele!
Finding happiness is an inside job. Let's find our inner happiness and check our happiness state at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele!
Can we be truly really happy even if life is so hard? What is real happiness and how to make happiness a personal project? This week at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele!
We need to often check ourselves and how much love are we giving ourselves. How do we fully live out in true love for self? Let's deep dive on this topic at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele.
We heard this 'self-love' way too often. We feel we need it or have it? Yet do we truly embrace how we live out that love for ourselves? Let's have a long chat this week about true Love for our Self, at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele!
Let's learn how we can make the 5 Love Language as a tool to get to know better our loved ones, and deepen our relationships!
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Want to be loved? Learn how to speak and show love that is real and longed for. Let's learn and love this week at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele.
Resilience is not about love alone, or looking strong. We need to confront the difficulties in our relationships, to come out better - together! Join the Alignay couple for #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele.
Because it's love month, couple convo naman! Let's talk about how we survived all the issues and concerns (pandemic edition). In relationships. it's not just about the problems but how we cope and work on being better together! Imperfect couples, indeed!
P.S. Let's #CoffeeBreak over lunch break with #DrMichele and husband Koots this week! Exciting to, promise!
Each change is a chance for us to look within ourselves. The more we resist, the more harder it gets. We need to grow and evolve inside out to make change happen. Let's talk about it at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele.
The constant thing in life is change! True! But there are situations that change can be so hard! Let's unpack how we can be in charge of our "inward change." #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele
What do you need to know if you need to let go? Then, what do you need to work it through and pull together! Make relationships stronger at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele.
"I thought we're so close, but now..." "Parang lumayo siya." "It's like things are not the same." Can you relate with them? Can it be true that we are experiencing relationship drift? Let's bring in real conversation and learn from #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele.
Knowing that the well-being of one, affects the well-being of many, our own well-being is so important. Let's learn how to take the few small steps to be well and whole in good or bad times! #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele
Sa buhay, minsan, sabay sabay or sunod sunod ang mga ganap! Before we knew it, it can actually tip us off. You might be running empty, while trying to hold to fort, and taking care of your family. Wait muna! Sit down first and learn how you can safeguard your own well-being at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele!
Too many things are happening, way beyond our control! Find time to reboot and recover yourself despite all the challenges the new year bring! Find renewed ways to care more for your and your family's well-being, through #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele.
Too many things are happening, way beyond our control! Find time to reboot and recover yourself despite all the challenges the new year bring! Find renewed ways to care more for your and your family's well-being, through #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele.
Are you aware of your beliefs about "well-being" if helpful or not on how it is serving you now? Let's chat about some myths may not help, and some realities may need to be reinforced! Our well-being is our responsibility, so sit down and #Coffeebreak with #DrMichele!
It is a must to reset our relationship with our significant partners. Let's sit down and reflect how can we take small steps to reset our marriages, at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele.
We all go through life and family, and we are pulled in so many directions! We need to understand why and how we can reset the most crucial loving relationship we have - our marriage!
There can only be a healthier and deeper relationship, if there is effective and healthy communication in marriages and families. Deepen your know-how about this at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele
Do you communicate to connect and be closer or just to make your spouse and loved ones comply? Can relationships function well without real deep communication? Let's have real talk at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele!
We cannot just be blah, just okay and all about life. We need to take small steps to reboot and move out of languishing. See you at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele.
That state of blah blah, duh, "K lang" or "sakto" or even, "keri lang" that seems to be where we are for quite awhile. Unlock the blah, get up, be well to be better! Sit down with me over coffee and chat #CoffeeBreak w/ #DrMichele.
We need to check if we are in entangled relationships. Then learn how to move out for good. #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele
Meshed up like mashed potato in a family or any loving relationships. If all sweep up by others, who will you be and how will you be in a marriage or family? Know more about "enmeshments" at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele!
We need to learn to pause in between the stressful situation and our inner interpretation, to help ourselves be out of the state of Hopelessness. Let's dive more into this topic at #CoffeeBreak w/ #DrMichele
When we're down and out, it seems that there is no way out. How do we help ourselves be better again? Start November with new ways to cope and hope at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele.
Assertiveness is a route to healthy mind, body and even relationships. How do we move on and arm ourselves to express our needs, wants and longings? Let's continue the conversation at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele
Expressing your needs and sharing your insights, are not being aggressive. Assertiveness kills can be helpful for you and for relationships. Learn more about it at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele.
We cannot wait for life be perfect before we can take charge of our well-being! Let's discuss about ways and strategies to support your mental health, here at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele
All we've been through the past months, may pose challenges to our mental health! So let's celebrate our Selves, as we celebrate World Mental Health. How we can do small things to support our own mental well-being? Let's chat about being well at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele.
How do you navigate stress and support your self, rather then spending your energy fussing about things beyond control? Listen to this conversation at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele via FG, YT and Spotify.
Are you too stressed due to stress? If you think stress will go away, no it won't! Let's understand how too much stress can affect you, and how to manage and support yourself. Kape at usap tayo sa #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele
Do not wait for life to be perfect! In the middle of stress and difficulties, find ways and use your innate skills to boost your mood and help yourself cope with the demands of life! It's straight talk at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele.
We seem to be having too much load of life, work and all these external challenges. So let's make things better by learning to do things that can uplift our daily grind! Tips on mood boosters this week at #CoffeeBreak!
Some days we do it all, some days we just cannot! We need to understand that productivity at this time of pandemic needs to take on a meaning, and we need to recalibrate our ways to do and accomplish! Let's discuss this further at this episode of #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele
The day went away and you like nothing happened! Last quarter of 2021, and it seems like you did not accomplish anything. How do we define being unproductive? When it is helpful and not? Let's chat about this at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele.
We may all have our own 'insecurities,' yet we do not let it get the best of ourselves and relationships! Let's deal with them together at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele.
Our insecurities are not supposed to be eating us, it's supposed to be dealt with! Know what insecurities can do to our lives and loves at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele!
Knowing the red-flags will help us deal with or make better decisions to have better relationships. Know better to do better with #DrMichele at #CoffeeBreak.
In the midst of romance, it is hard to see the warning signs of unhealthy patterns and behavior among partners. We all need to learn what should not be tolerated in loving relationships! Tune in at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele.
We may be anchoring our sense of worth as adults in the wrong things, or people! As adults and as we mature, let's learn to transforms and rebuild our sense of self-worth, that will help us become the persons we are meant to be! Join me for this real talk at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele.
We do not check our worth only when we are at the peak of success! The more we need to revisit our sense of who we are, and the value we give ourselves during challenging times! Learn more at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele
Life may be hard. We need to support us. We need to learn the lessons so we can cherish life more and share ourselves to those who need us! Celebrate life, learnings and living intentionally with me at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele.
Celebrate and cherish life even if we have burdens, Let's share blessings and breakthroughs. This week, let's chat, chika, connect and celebrate with me, over #CoffeeBreak, with a slice of love, cake and cup of tea and coffee w/ #DrMichele.
Does the midlife season really matter? What are the essentials matters in our midlife stage? It's worth talking about at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele
What needs to be dealt with while we experience being in our midlife? Carry on and #CoffeeBreak with Dr. Michele
Though being anxious is normal (or could go wayward), we need to find ways to help ourselves and manage it! #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele
There are seasons in our life when we are flooded with uncertainties and resulting to anxiety. Let's learn what it is about, and tell if it's normal anxiety or no longer helpful. Let's calm and carry on, via #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele
Being emotionally vulnerable is actually a strength and a source of deeper connection in marriage and loving relationships. Learn more about it at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMIchele.
Real talk, inward experience, connecting to our real emotions, and letting ourselves to be 'vulnerable.' It can actually help us be better and stronger! Let's sit down and have real talk at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele.
We are all at risk of burnout and it can affect our health and even relationships! So let's learn ways to move ourselves out of it at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele
Baka nasobrahan na tayo sa too many lows, pains and trying to just survive, yet we still give and serve! Emotional burnout is real! So is real conversation at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele
If we know it's toxic, then it's not healthy for our whole being. Let's arm ourselves on how to move out from toxic relationships at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele
At the core of our being, we want nurturing relationships. But at times, we do not realize or we cannot find ways to get out of what seems to be a toxic relationship. Let's sit down and have real talk at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele.
Learning to confront and manage the little issues, can help toughen and ease us to deal with the bigger conflicts. Mahirap, but we need to do it better to have better and more loving relationships!
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Conflicts are given in relationships! Lack of it may not mean all is well, so we have to learn how to acknowledge, deal and let conflicts bring out the best in us! #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele.
What happens to us when we are in the middle of an emotional experience? We need to learn to befriend our emotions, so we can have better mental, emotional and relationship health. Let's continue the conversation at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele.
We can learn so much from our emotions! We can actually use it to thrive in our well-being and in our relationships. What we need is not only to be happy, but learn to respond appropriately. #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele
Knowing too much of something is unhealthy, including positivity, we need to learn how to deal with toxic people and how to work on not being one as well! Such a fitting topic to have over at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele
All too good positive, without addressing problems can be toxic! It happens to relationships! Let's move out of this cycle and be authentic. Learn more from #CoffeeBreak with.#DrMichele
We learned the hard way in our marriages and relationships. So what do we need to make it better and healthy to stand any pandemic in our lives? Tune in to #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele
What are the essentials (and non-essentials) to protect and be proactive in having healthy relationships, pandemic and beyond? Sit down with Dr. Michele to talk about this topic at #CoffeeBreak!
In between ideals and realities, changes and challenges, what are the essential matters we need in a marriage? Real conversations at #CoffeeBreak
Marriage is not a flat line, or a one-size fits all, tick box to-do list. We need to look into the matters and realities (joys and woes), to intentionally make it matter!
Let us answer your questions in this episode about marriage and family life, plus you! Sit down for #CoffeeBreak and converse with #DrMichele.
How do we make midlife meaningful amidst being a mother, wife, and ourselves? Take some steps now to make it through midlife!
Midlifing while mothering? How these two go together? It is key to understand ourselves and our kids too, to be able to make this stage meaningfully midlife! #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele
Imperfect Moms thrive together! To celebrate motherhood, join me in a real conversation with another mommy friend through #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele
We need to learn to embrace the imperfections of our motherhood, our kids, our home, our spouses and all things in between.
Being a mother have seasons! It has its changes, challenges, charm and coping! So let's learn from mothers on how to cope well!
Motherhood may be forever, but each season has its charm, changes and challenges. Yet, celebrating motherhood and the mother in you, is what we will do at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele
The only way to heal is to feel and face the pain. Yet we need to work on healing slowly and surely. Let's find our path to healing at #CoffeeBreak with Dr. Michele
The more we encounter loss and difficulties, the more we need to support ourselves! Let's support each other through real talks at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele
The more we encounter loss and difficulties, the more we need to support ourselves! Let's support each other through real talks at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele
We know to learn about both physical and psychological safety. Yet, it should affect how we are keeping ourselves sane while we brace through difficult times. Stay both sane and safe as we learn more at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele
We both need to be safe and sane. We take care of our our health and well-being, amidst the challenges we have. We also need to be physically and emotionally safe while we stay home. Let us reflect about this #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele
Even if we encounter challenges, we can learn life lessons that we can apply at the moment and onwards. Let's celebrate at #CoffeeBreak
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One year of real conversations, with real people like you, all happening while we are on lockdown! We have learned so much from life and each other, so let's sit down with a good drink and talk about it at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele
We cannot choose what happens outside us. Yet, we can work on being serene and at peace inside us. Yes, it is possible! Let us work on our #mental health and #wellbeing at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele
Life can wipe us! So we choose how we respond on what is happening both inside and outside us. Restoring our sense of inner peace and well-being is a deliberate process! Worthwhile to talk about it at #CoffeeBreak with Dr. Michele
We have our womanly body, emotions and how our thought works, plus an inner real self? How to harness the wisdom from within us? Sit down and reflect about this at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele
What makes us a woman? What di we go through? Amidst difficulties, embracing our uniqueness is being able to make the most of who we are in life, work, relationships, and all else! Let us sit down for a #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele
How far have we become better after all the struggles and setbacks? Those set backs might be our life's step ups! Tune in to #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele
How have we been? Are we better after all the burdens we went through? Did we allow difficult circumstances make us a better person! Let's be our resilient sef at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele
Are we stifling our loved ones, or ala helicopter as a parent, check your spaces and how it is affecting you! We need to be fully aware that we need space in our relationships to make it not just happier but healthier? #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele
Is being too much together healthy or not? But isn't that being together is what relationships are about? How do we have the "space" and be connected with our loved ones? Let us talk about it at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele.
One of the best things parents can give their children's is a happy marriage. And so, couples need to work on the marriage amidst raising kids! Hear some real life tips at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele
Young couples, couples with growing kids who are juggling work, parenting and all, how do we balance married life with parenthood? Can marriage take a backseat while we raise kids? Let us see how we balance it all at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele.
Relationships are so important! The more we go through, the more we learn and grow with our loved ones. So, we continue talking about guidelines for healthier relationships at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele.
Is love enough to make a marriage or any loving relationship work? Single, married, and any person in loving relationships, let us revisit some tested rules in keeping loving relationships! #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele
Intimacy is intricately part of us and our human relationships. So how do we deepen intimacy with our relationships - with others and even ourselves?
Do you really understand what Intimacy is? It is very crucial for any relationship - with others or with the self. Intimacy goes beyond romance!
This is a worthwhile topic at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele!
There are seasons in our life that we can learn from our challenges and circumstances, so that change within can happen. It can start with self-compassion.
Let us sit down and have #CoffeeBreak to understand this more.
Are you kind to yourself the way you are to others? Learn more how can you be kinder, within and outside you! We can still grow in compassion in many ways, as we learn together at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele
How can self-care helps us in flow through the nitty gritty changes and challenges of our day? We have to be our own Self-Care Maker!
Let us learn together at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele
We have heard so many things about self-care yet we need to be more intentional on how we can maximize it's value and benefit to our well-being! Things will not be always easy, so self-care needs to be made simpler!
We have been programmed to speed up, rush and move fast! Yet there may be beauty in starting slow this year. It is one route for us to be well, healthy and mindful!
Let us unwrap 2021 slowly at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele!
We all had 'the year!' The year where what truly matters is filtered! And one of the most important thing we need to take care of moving beyond this year, is our sense of being whole and our utmost well-being!
Let's focus on being well at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele!
Ending 2020 should not be less that what it has been! With the holidays, and the year end happenings, we need to intentionally sit down and review how whole we have become! Sit down and have #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele!
Let us make this season of being at home for the holidays, more personal! Holidays at Home, is being a home within and celebrating life and faith in and out! It's about faith, family and a fantastic life!
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So, Christmas and the new year, with all the festivities will be celebrated differently? How can we do that as a family and individually? What really matters this season?
Worthwhile #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele
We overlook that stage in our lives, being at "midlife." The more we need to be aware, accepting and armed with ways to make marriage matter amidst midlife, or midlife matter in a marriage!
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Does this "midlife" really happen even in good marriages? How to know if my spouse and I are in midlife?
Tune in to understand more about this at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele.
In my own marriage, in my encounters and in the books or researches, no set "formula" to make a great marriage! But for sure there are ingredients needed, and we make it suited to our liking. But making it work - takes Effort!
Cheers to great marriages at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele
It takes courage and commitment to get married, and stay married! It takes effort to be aligned and attuned with the partner to make it work and try to be in sync! In celebrating my own anniversary, allow me to share my insights on what makes marriage work! Celebrate with #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele.
If social media seems to much, maybe we need to take steps for us to ensure our digital well-being! Yes, we can hit that log out, the unfollow, or curate our feeds, etc. Our inner life is more important that the newsfeed!
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Sorting out our priorities can be easier, especially when we are in the middle of crisis. We can choose to be both safe (our basic needs) and sane (well-being needs).
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Do you give all of you? Do you realize who you are really in your relationships - marriage, family and any loving human relationships? The value of the self is more critical than you think!
Something to #CoffeeBreak about with #DrMichele!
If conflicts happen, how do we deal with it and manage it so it will not wreck havoc in relationships and family life?
Let's #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele about it!
We all experience misunderstandings, arguments and then conflicts? Can it be a way to grow in the relationship? What has conflict to do with one's self-esteem? Let us talk aboit it at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele
Could we really get burnout with being a parent or being an adult family member? How do we ensure our well-being, and we do not risk burnout with work-life?
Let's #CoffeeBreak about it!
Is it being so stressed to the point of wanting to stop doing what you are doing? or could it be burnout? Let us unpack it, understand it and work on ourselves to be better in beating burnout!
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How can we strengthen the family further despite imperfect situations and difficulties?
Dr. Michele shares some strategies at #CoffeeBreak!
While we are stressed, we overlook our strengths! The very things we need to thrive as a family, may just be some things we can re-think and re-new!
Turn stress into strengths at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele
Are we doing too much for our kids (young and even adult), that we set the tone for being crippled in life?
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Yes, we have to be a family! In good times or in imperfect times, we have to be at helm of supporting our family's mental health!
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What is this about? Am I in the middle of it, or raising my family to be launched in life?
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In line with World Mental Health celebrations, let us understand how we in the family support each one to thrive in our mental, and even overall health! Our mental wellbeing begins and affects the family!
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How can we balance being a Mary who sits down, and the ever busy planner Martha? Let’s chat about these women so we can be more like them ❤️
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These women have traits we can learn from, let’s get to know them and how we can grow more like them. ❤️
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So if stress and challenges are part of family life? How do we still bring harmony to the family, while we deal with the concerns? It's a crucial task but we got to do it!
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Yes it happens to marriages, among family members, and even to our significant relationships. What is dependency and when it is not healthy?
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We have our dose of family stress and challenges. Yet how do we understand it and better take hold of it to help ourselves and our families cope!
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How do we say no? How to love and be committed to a relationship while we balance our healthy emotional distance?
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The core of relationships is the worth and value we first give our selves! So we can keep building our self-esteem as adults? That's what we talk about at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele
If we are fully self-aware, we can evolve our “self” from the inside out, that spills over to evolving in life and our significant relationships.
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Who are we really when we are in a family or in any loving relationships? How we value the 'self" is in proportion to how we are inside and outside! :)
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Many has been said and done, but who is the parent and who takes care of this amazing person?
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How do we deal with differences with the people we love? Is it possible to grow in the relationship despite being different?
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Too much has been said about adulting. But in the process of being an adult, what areas need to be integrated in our "self"?
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Too many things we go through as adults! Yet, we need to keep evolving and understand each stage, the struggles we go through, and the person we are becoming!
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Do we heed our body when it sends signals of being unwell? When we feel something not too good, does it affect our health too? Get to know yourself and your body better at this episode of #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele
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How to have that elusive “balance” with the areas of life? Is that even possible in our stay home situation? #DrMichele talks about it!
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So you tend to overthink? Then you get too overwhelmed with all things in your thoughts. So, how can you better help yourself to move out of your overthinking zone? Let's talk about it at #CoffeeBreak with #DrMichele
How do we start life again when what works before is no longer feasible. Is life, work, schooling, traditions and relationships still possible?
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Too much thoughts can get to us, impair our thinking, emotions and ways of living! Understand that help is available, and it starts with your "thinking!"
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How do we put schooling at home, when we have too many roles to play at this trying time? Let’s take things one step at a time! Tayo munang parents! #DrMichele wears both educator and parent hat at this #CoffeeBreak!
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How do we sift through the too many matters to look into, consider and decide upon in this challenging season? Let us unpack this at our conversation at #CoffeeBreak 🙂
This was originally posted via FB Live on 2020-06-09.
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If too much together and hovering may not be healthy? And too much separateness may not be helpful? How we can have healthy balance of togetherness in our families?
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There are some matter in life that all we are asked to do, is accept! It is damn hard at times, but we gotta do it!
This was originally posted via FB Live on 2020-06-04.
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Too much or too little? Healthy or not? What do we need to understand about family bonds and individual growth! This is so real while we are mostly at home!
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Tiring to be always moving and doing, plus adulting! How can we harness the key to better wellbeing through the thing called Pause!
This was originally posted via FB Live on 2020-06-02.
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What really defines and make us? How accepting and loving we are of our “self” - beauty and flaws?
This was originally posted via FB Live on 2020-05-28.
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Our thoughts affect our actions, emotions and direction! Arm yourself to cope better, no matter what life may bring!
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You cannot just do everything for your loved ones. We have to learn to observe boundaries and step back to make them grow!
This was originally posted via FB Live on 2020-05-26.
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Problems and issues will always be around, the key is how are we coping?
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Misunderstanding, disagreements, irritations and discussions, is it normal for couples and families to have these? Let us discuss, How to better deal with conflicts?
This was originally posted via FB Live on 2020-05-19.
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How do we make sense of our difficulties, rock-bottoms and deadlock situations from the past to now? Have coffee and real life conversation with #DrMichele
This was originally posted via FB Live on 2020-05-12.
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Let’s celebrate us, mothers! So many things to do, to fulfill, to take care of and all things in between - at home and beyond. So how do we upgrade ourselves mothers, to deal with almost all?
This was originally posted via FB Live on 2020-05-05.
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Welcome to my podcast. I want to empower more people even if that means going out of my way, like putting this up on podcast for example. This is a new space for me so please bare with me for any technical glitches. You can expect to hear my latest content here going forward. Also, we will be back-posting some of the older episodes. I hope you enjoy them and, more importantly, learn from them.