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 prayed about it and knew […]
Drug Testing my Teenage Son AKA Another fun day at my house. Read More »
This is something we really work together on in Essentials to Enjoy Life group coaching class. What is Spinning? Spinning is when thoughts and or emotions start swirling around in our head and body. You can have positive spins In Essentials to Enjoy Life class we focus more on negative spins, because those are what
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Do you sometimes feel like you’re running on empty with only your power? You have gotten so far with your power, but it has run out and you realize, And certainly you can make some choices like fueling yourself with rest and food and affirmations, but sometimes you just need something more. I know for
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Today I want to talk about floor goals and ceiling goals and how they can help not only you, but your child as well. Stop Yelling Goals I first put this into practice many years ago when I was trying to stop yelling at my boys. They were still little, very little, and I had
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Part of Parenting Challenging Children – is Keeping Track of All their Appointments! For Devon, when he was little, he was in occupational therapy, physical therapy, and speech therapy. This was back in the day before iPhones and I had a paper calendar hanging on the wall, and I know for a time I had
I finally found the digital calendar that does all I need it to do! AND it is pretty!! Read More »
One of my favorite tools to share with parents is Angels! We surely have angels on both sides of the veil. Earthly Angels and Heavenly Angels. In this podcast episode, I interview Katie and she shares her experience when her daughter got 3rd degree burns on her feet and how Heavenly Angels helped during the
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Today I want to talk about Why it is so hard to use the tools that we know about? I had a challenging situation this past weekend and I was feeling a lot of anxiety about an upcoming event and was spinning in my mind and thoughts and emotions about what to do with the
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Meet Katie I am the founder and creator of a podcast, really a micro podcast, two-ish minutes a day called Everyday Happiness, finding Harmony and Bliss, and I create all kinds of fun things. But before I got into happiness and just trying to find the clarity in life, I, was an attorney practicing law
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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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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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