How do you respond when your child says their feelings were hurt? When they share someone was unkind or critical of them?
Do you race to rescue? To problem solve? Do you swoop in to
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Archives for April 2021
Seen and Heard and Accepted
Boundaries on self are simply the practice of becoming aware when your old patterns of behavior are in charge. This is often rooted in an old belief that says “I’m not enough so I must do X.”
For the
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Surrender
Control is still my worst enemy. It’s my Achilles heel.
It shows up as micromanaging my children and their activities and their emotions and their responses and words and... well you get it, all for
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What ‘WE’ need
I sat across from Fred, our therapist, with a blank stare.
He didn’t ask me anything profound. He simply asked me where I wanted my then Fiance (now husband) to take me to lunch.
I had no
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Stop expecting them…
I mean, ouch.
It’s true though, we work so hard to get others to love and respect and accept us... yet we don’t love and respect and accept ourselves first.
I had this conversation with a friend
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Boundaries 101 Cheatsheet
If boundary work was never modeled for you, this “cheat sheet” may be helpful. Simply save with the bookmark 📁 to refer back to later.
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Boundaries 101 Cheatsheet
If boundary work was never modeled for you, this “cheat sheet” may be helpful. Simply save with the bookmark 📁 to refer back to later.
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Reintroducing myself
I want to introduce myself, because I haven’t in a while.
I am a believer. A wife. A mother. A student. A writer. An entrepreneur. However, who I am runs deeper than these titles, and I’m learning to
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Things that won’t guarantee they stay
We teach teens about finance and about sex/drugs and about algebra but we don’t teach them how to navigate relationships. We don’t stand before them and reveal to them just how powerful their first
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Note to self: Learning to notice
You aren’t hard to love. You have simply been conditioned to ask for it from the wrong people. 🤍
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