Family tips and tricks
Let’s do a Countdown to Christmas: Day 10 today. I thought I would focus on the 10 most common emotions during this time of year, according to a quick Google search. In no particular order: Stress Worry Anxiety Overwhelm Depression Sadness Trauma Frustration Grief Anger …
Hello everyone… Its been a while since I have written anything here. There just has been so much going on that I just haven’t had the energy to do one more thing. But I have not been idle when it comes to my practice! Here …
“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” I remember yelling that back at the kids who called me names in elementary school. Jokingly, I said it as an adult. How many times have you heard this phrase or spoke …
This is a difficult season. I know many of you have noticed that my posts have been a little more vulnerable lately.. Many of you may have noticed that I haven’t posted as much lately. Maybe you haven’t noticed at all.. Everyone is in their …
When I say “grounding”, what do you think of?? Are you like me and thought it was just some weird “Hippy-Dippy” thing? Or maybe you thought of electricity and that wire that was supposed to connect to the earth and keep the electricity from going …
Life is messy. Relationships are messy. Children and pets are messy.. jobs and businesses are messy. In the messiness of life, creativity can be lost We have to sometimes be pretty creative in how we handle life, don’t we?? I mean, nothing really follows the …
Last week I posted the first part of this series and you can find it here. In last weeks post, I talked about why we would want to have good boundaries and what a boundary-less house would look like. I talked about how sometimes we …
Let’s talk boundaries. How do they go along with rejection? And why am I talking about them in connection with Valentine’s Day?? I mean, isn’t that the time to celebrate love and romance and relationships??!!! Sure, Valentine’s Day is a great time to talk about …
This month I have been talking, as much as I have been able, about Seasonal Affective Disorder. SAD… Winter Blues. Cabin Fever. Climbing the walls. You know, what happens every year when everything is cold, wet, cold, dark, cold, snowy. The holidays are over. There …
Here we are again. It’s the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas. It can be the absolute craziest time of the entire year, but it doesn’t have to be. Let’s simplify Christmas this year. I had a friend would describe it like this: “It’s like sledding …