How are you handling holiday stress? One definition of stress is feeling a big responsibility for something, while you also feel like you have little to no control over it. Like with many of the things that come with the holidays: Family or work parties you are expected to attend. Dealing with old traumas related […]
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Many years ago, I went to a workshop with medical intuitive, Christel Nani, and she was teaching us how to open our chakras by changing our limiting beliefs. This is when I first witnessed the benefits of singing. There was a man in the audience who stood up with a question. Through wet eyes and
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Since my recent TEDxWilmington talk was only 10 minutes, I wrote a few blogs to cover what I didn’t get to share in it. Today I am expanding about the resistance and complaining that kids do when asked to do chores. Because that shizzle is real! You can check out some of my other TEDx
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Kids hate chores. Of course they do. I don’t prefer doing them much either! I’d rather relax and do fun activities with my friends. Luckily, because of my life experience I’m able to see the long and short term benefits of chores that young people usually haven’t learned yet. This helps me do them because
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Are you sick of dealing with difficulty and conflict between you and your teens when it comes to doing chores, or anything deemed as hard? I am. If I had a dime for every gaslighting comment about what a terrible mom I am, I’d be rich. In this post I am going to address how
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Here is my TEDxWilmington talk on anxiety in kids and teens and how it is exacerbated by kids not learning cause and effect. We have a crisis on our hands: Anxiety among children and teenagers is growing to pandemic proportions. Watch the talk and read the written version below. [click_to_tweet tweet=”Calm Anxious Kids with Simple
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The other day I saw a church sign that said “Trust God, But Lock Your Car” and I thought it was perfect for those of us who have trust issues! And really, who doesn’t have trust issues? We’ve all been hurt and then subsequently found it hard to trust. We all read the terrible stuff
A few months back, I was writing in my journal and when I looked down at the date I noticed it was 10-4. This reminded me of the CB radio call: 10-4, Good Buddy!… a different way of saying “I hear you.” And that’s what I want to discuss today. What if you began each
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