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Five Ways to Start Forgiving Your Parents
When it comes to forgiveness, parents just may be the toughest to forgive, especially if you have childhood trauma. But here’s the thing, no matter what your history is regarding your parents, you take those primary relationships into every single relationship...
How to Respond When Your Kids Say “I’m Bored.”
When you’re a parent, it’s inevitable you’ll hear the refrain “I’m bored.” So what do you say? Here are a couple of ways to deal with boredom. First and foremost … our kids live their lives structured and managed. From school, sports events, birthday parties, relative...
What Profound Women Crave
Rania Naim is a writer and poet. Project Forgive was sent this beautiful list of characteristics. We were moved by it, and we wanted to share it with you. The deeper you are, the harder it becomes for you to find a compatible relationship. You can go on a lot of dates...
Strategies for Building Better Boundaries
Setting boundaries, especially with loved ones, is one of the hardest things to communicate in a relationship. And especially now, right? There are so many more challenges as we navigate moving through a pandemic. Spending a ton of our time with those we are closest...
The Reality of Marriage Most Don’t Share …
Keeping a loving, healthy marriage takes courage commitment and being unstoppable for love and connection. We recently ran across this list by an anonymous writer that touched our hearts. In other words, we could all deeply relate. Marriage isn’t all romance, candy,...
Modeling Forgiveness and Compassion For Our Children
As a parent you already know that raising conscious, compassionate children doesn’t just happen. It takes commitment, skill, repetition and stamina. And a lot of love and tenderness. Research consistently shows that our day-to-day actions as adults, whether it's...
If Your Baby Could Talk
For all the mothers and fathers out there, we recently ran across this letter by an anonymous writer that touched our hearts. Enjoy. Dear mama, Could you wake up for a minute? I know it’s hard for you to open your eyes – we haven’t slept a lot yet tonight. But mama, I...
Deepening Closeness and Intimacy
We all crave being closer to the ones we love. There's nothing that quite compares to being heard, being held close and feeling emotionally supported with another. And especially now. The need to connect is at an all-time high as we navigate the changes during the...
Women Over 50, Dump That Diet Soda
Good health, good sense and good friends are three of life's greatest blessings. And, of course, good health and good sense could be linked to you saying goodbye to that can of diet soda. If you’re a woman over 50, it may be time to reconsider popping open that diet...
A Good Night’s Sleep is a Self-Care Conversation
You already know this, your body’s got to get its rest. When you're sleep-deprived, it impacts every aspect of your life. And yeah, at different points in our lives, it’s a struggle, especially now as we all meander through all the stressful changes such as racial...
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