Marriage and Mental Health
Below is another online Forum brought to you by Focus on the Family Malaysia in conjunction with Marriage Campaign 2022.
The speakers includes Ms. Azah Yazmin, Licensed and Registered Counsellor and Consultant Psychiatrist Dr Vincent Wong Choong Wai
Click Understanding Mental Health and Marriage to view this FB event !
or click the link below :
A meaningful poem by Dorothy Law Nolte (以下是我最喜欢的一首诗)
孩子从生活中学习
如果孩子生活在批评中，他们学会谴责。
如果孩子生活在敌意中，他们学会争斗。
如果孩子生活在恐惧中，他们学会忧虑。
如果孩子生活在同情中，他们学会自怜。
如果孩子生活在嘲讽中，他们学会羞愧。
如果孩子生活在醋意中，他们学会嫉妒。
如果孩子生活在羞辱中，他们学会愧疚。
如果孩子生活在鼓励中，他们学会自信。
如果孩子生活在包容中，他们学会忍耐。
如果孩子生活在赞美中，他们学会感恩。
如果孩子生活在接纳中，他们学会去爱。
如果孩子生活在认可中，他们学会爱自己。
如果孩子生活在赏识中，他们学会设立目标是好的。
如果孩子生活在分享中，他们学会慷慨。
如果孩子生活在诚实中，他们学会信实。
如果孩子生活在公平中，他们学会正义。
如果孩子生活在仁慈和体谅中，他们学会尊重。
如果孩子的生活富有安全感，他们学会对自己及他人有信心。
如果孩子的生活充满良善，他们会认为这世界是美好的。
by Dorothy Law Nolte, Ph.D.
Click here for the poem in Chinese ( pdf form )
Children Mental health and Emotional Resilience
Here is a bilingual talk ( English and Mandarin) on Children’s Mental Health and developing Emotional Resilience.
by Dr. Vincent Wong, Psychiatrist ( 王 忠 威 心 理 精 神 专 科 医 生) )
Beautiful Poem by Amanda Gorman ( American Poet )
Let us begin the year 2022 with a message of Hope and Resilience.
New Day’s Lyric by Amanda Gorman ( released on the 30 Dec 2021 )
May this be the day
We come together.
Mourning, we come to mend,
Withered, we come to weather,
Torn, we come to tend,
Battered, we come to better.
Tethered by this year of yearning,
We are learning
That though we weren’t ready for this,
We have been readied by it.
We steadily vow that no matter
How we are weighed down,
We must always pave a way forward.
This hope is our door, our portal.
Even if we never get back to normal,
Someday we can venture beyond it,
To leave the known and take the first steps.
So let us not return to what was normal,
But reach toward what is next.
What was cursed, we will cure.
What was plagued, we will prove pure.
Where we tend to argue, we will try to agree,
Those fortunes we forswore, now the future we foresee,
Where we weren’t aware, we’re now awake;
Those moments we missed
Are now these moments we make,
The moments we meet,
And our hearts, once all together beaten,
Now all together beat.
Come, look up with kindness yet,
For even solace can be sourced from sorrow.
We remember, not just for the sake of yesterday,
But to take on tomorrow.
We heed this old spirit,
In a new day’s lyric,
In our hearts, we hear it:
For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne.
Be bold, sang Time this year,
Be bold, sang Time,
For when you honor yesterday,
Tomorrow ye will find.
Know what we’ve fought
Need not be forgot nor for none.
It defines us, binds us as one,
Come over, join this day just begun.
For wherever we come together,
We will forever overcome.
