For Mother’s Day: Tips For Dealing With What Life Brings Your Way

This is the first Mother’s Day without my mother.  She died last fall a day shy of her 95th birthday.  As I think of her I see that she has left us a legacy of wisdom tips.  She would describe them as common sense.  She was born in Estonia into a comfortable life which changed [...]

Relationship Skill: Grow Your Self-Esteem

Our self-esteem can be enhanced throughout our life.  The reason I call my blog “Grow With Kristina” is because I feel strongly that people can  strengthen their emotional fitness  by learning new skills that increase their self-worth.

Self-esteem is made up of the feelings and ideas that we have  about ourselves,  how we communicate with others, [...]

Thoughts on Charles Darwin Day

February 12, 2009 is the 200th birthday of the evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin. I have been musing about the following quote by him “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, it is the one that is most adaptable to change.”

The ability to change as the situation changes [...]