When Devon, our oldest child, had to move back home a few years ago, it felt a little bit like going backwards to us, and I’m sure it felt that way for him too. But in reality, it was helping him to move forward to a greater and healthier independence. Now he’s living in a […]
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Today we are going to talk about the Stories we tell our self and how they hurt or help us. Do you notice that you are telling yourself stories all day long? Stories about your choices, what other people are doing, you name it. For instance, if my husband doesn’t do the dishes at night
7 Easy Steps to Change Your Stories so you can Change Your Life! Read More »
Access This Week’s Episode Here Yep…. This is where the 1/24/50/24/1 comes in handy. Though sometimes it really can be 50/50 or 99/1… each day is different. It is so interesting, because in reflecting on my life most of my days that have been the scariest and best days have all be about Devon. The
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Access This Week’s Episode Here I love to teach people that our days/weeks/lives have different levels of joy. Life is This could be throughout 1 day, or throughout a month, or throughout a year… This is so helpful, because when the bad things happen, I can remember, this is normal, of course 100% can’t be
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Access This Week’s Episode Here A new point of view of the Stripling Warriors. Throughout the battles in which the young stripling warriors fought, many of their number were wounded, but not one of them was ever killed because, although “they never had fought, yet they did not fear death; and they did think more
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Access This Week’s Episode Here Do you find it challenging to monitor your child’s phone? I will be honest when my older boys were younger, I would maybe check their phones every other week and it was so time consuming and mind numbing too! Then I discovered Bark. This is an AMAZING app that monitors
The best tool to monitor your child’s thousands of texts without drowning Read More »
Access This Week’s Episode Here I was spinning in the ideas of: It was so stressful. I was honestly stuck in this, I don’t know how to do this! energy And it made me feel Confused and worried. While coaching with my friend that is when I realized I thought there was a right
A Much Better Thought than “I Don’t Know How to Do This!” Read More »
Ahh, being the parent of a fiercely independent 18 year old. I love it, so many opportunities for growth. So many opportunities to try and let go of control, while also recognizing there are certain things I do still have stewardship over and have to set certain boundaries. However achieving the balance in that is
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Access This Week’s Episode Here One night I had some friends over at my house. We were having a great time. My teenager came home, said hi to everyone and I thought nothing of it. A day later one of my friends called and said she had to tell me something. She sounded hesitant but said she had
Drug Testing my Teenage Son AKA Another fun day at my house. Read More »
Access This Weeks Episode Here Your body can hold energy and emotions. Which is great when they are happy, but if you are angry or sad, typically we don’t want to just hold those and carry them around with us. One of the easiest tools I share about clearing emotions and stress is Walking WHILE
Walking and Talking is a Great Tool for Processing Emotions Read More »