Personal Experiences

5 Steps to Feel Confident Feeling Your Emotions

What is it about feelings that can be so overwhelming? Honestly, for me, even really happy feelings on an intense level was overwhelming to me as a mom of young kids. Having three little boys with big emotions sometimes just was overwhelming. And then to add my own emotions on top of it was a

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When Your Child Does Something Stupid: Try Curious Instead of Furious

My children have done things that make me feel furious. Bryson, when he was a new driver, he had an 11:30 PM curfew. Well, one night, very soon after he started driving, he didn’t get home until 1:00 AM He did call us and say he was going to meet his brother Carson at In

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Would my Life Coaching Skills Stack Up Against My Son Getting Kidnapped?

I had been a life coach for a few years when Devon was 16. I had a lot of tools by then, and our relationship was pretty good, much better than it had been years before. However, he still was the most challenging of my children. And would sometimes create things, maybe not intentionally, but

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Staying Flexible, Calm and Present Helped Me Enjoy a Wonderful Celebration

My son got married My middle son recently got married and it was glorious. I will say I don’t usually do well with parties and wearing nice clothes and all these things made me a little uncomfortable, but I really was very intentional in how I wanted to show up the day of the wedding.

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