Almost ten years ago, I began seeing a therapist. I knew I had a problem with alcohol, but I didn’t know a thing about being codependent.
He asked me a simple question. A question that
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Archives for September 2020
Violating a child’s physical boundaries
This is one of my hot 🔥 topics. Especially when it comes to grandparents. There is NEVER a time to violate a child’s boundaries, unless of course it means keeping them
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Parents don’t teach you how to love
If you were lucky enough, those parents of yours pointed you to the One whose love never runs low, never falls short + endures all things. Unfortunately however, many of
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Keep Going
I wish I could whisper this to that young woman, laying on the couch at her friend’s apartment, hung over + weary + lost. I didn’t know then where I’d be today. I can
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Question Them
We think something is wrong with our boundary when a person we love pushes back, is offended or doesn’t agree with it. Instead of sitting with it for a while and letting
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Not Yours to Manage
Many of you grew up parenting your own parents. And now that you are ACTUALLY parents to children, you feel the need to manage the way your parents respond to your
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Caregiver says… Child learns…
I’m beginning to believe, the longer I do this “mama thing,” that children don’t have a motivation problem, they have a trust problem. They don’t have a disrespect
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Acceptance
I’ve evolved into a highly sensitive empath. I don’t believe we are born this way. I believe our environment + those early relationships in childhood groom this skill.
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You Can
I’m sorry if you never felt worthy of these things. But maybe today is the day that it begins for you. 🤍 one breath, one step// keep going.
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Reframe.
I have had zero brain capacity to work on content or be in this space. While my husband + I are finally seeing the light after adding “twins” (one adopted, one bio baby
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