moms of teen sons

This parenting journey I’ve been on over the last several years has been an opportunity to learn an important life lesson.  In fact, once I learned this lesson myself it amazed me that we [...]

Something goes wrong (or at least not the way you planned) and your mind can so quickly and so easily go to questions like: Why does this have to happen to me? Why do I have to suffer this right [...]

Parenting is definitely no job for the faint of heart.  Nor for the perfectionist.  Or the selfish.  But, if you’re reading this blog you already know this!  Of course, we [...]

Sometimes I surprise myself.  This morning, over breakfast with a friend, I heard myself saying, “Yes, it’s been a rough year but I honestly think it’s been worth it because of all the lessons [...]

One of the first concepts I teach my clients is that the circumstances in our lives are neutral ~ just facts ~ and so it’s not the situation we’re in that’s causing us to be happy or sad, excited [...]

Recently, as I was checking out at the grocery store, I was given a little gift from above. Now, I’ve gone to this particular grocery store consistently for almost a decade.  Over that period of [...]

Several times in the last few weeks friends have told me, “Wow, your perspective on that situation is incredible,” or they’ve asked, “How can you be so positive in such an awful situation?”  [...]

In last week’s blog I shared how I returned to a hotel to retrieve some missing shoes only to eventually find those shoes were already in my car.  When I chose to believe this wasn’t a big deal, [...]