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A Releasing Practice for Shifting Past Limiting Thoughts, Painful Decisions, and Forgiveness Struggles
Releasing involves letting go of limiting thoughts, painful decisions, and suppressed emotions to create space for growth and healing. It's a transformative practice that allows you to move forward with emotional freedom and even forgiveness. Below you'll find some...
Generational Healing: The Power of Forgiving Our 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 Beat Boredom with Kids – Proven Ideas That Work
When you’re a parent or grandparent, it’s inevitable that you’ll need to entertain youngsters because you'll hear the refrain “I’m bored” often! So what do you say and do that helps beat boredom? Here are a few ways to respond, as well as fun ideas to keep kids...
Strength and Compatibility: The Characteristics That Define a Strong Woman’s Relationships
Many of my friends and I have come to the conclusion that The deeper you are, the harder it becomes for you to find a compatible relationship and that strong women struggle finding an ideal relationship. You can go on a lot of dates, be introduced to a lot of...
Protecting Your Peace: Effective Strategies for Boundary Setting
Setting boundaries, especially with loved ones, is one of the hardest things to communicate in a relationship. In many cases, we’ve built long-term communication patterns that have been in place for years. To “retrain” the people around you (and yourself to actually...
Relationship Reality: Happy Marriages Require Effort That Few Acknowledge
Keeping a loving, healthy, and lasting marriage takes courage, commitment, and being unstoppable at forgiving each other. Marriage isn’t all about romance, candy, and flowers. It’s two mature people who continuously choose to grow together. We recently ran across this...
Practical Tips for Modeling Forgiveness and Compassion to Our Children and Grandchildren
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...
The Life-Altering Difference of Motherhood: If Your Baby Could Talk
Whether you can’t get the laundry done, you struggle with all the financial responsibilities, or have zero down time to yourself, all mothers (and parents) struggle and worry that they’re not doing a good enough job. It’s part of the deal as a parent. With that said,...
Growing Closer: Strengthening Relationships is Good for Your Soul
Research shows that intimacy is much more than a psychological need but is also based on our biology. One of the most famous studies by Harry Frederick Harlow, examined touch and isolation with rhesus monkeys and their babies. His classic 1965 research found that baby...
Diet Soda: It’s Time To Bid Farewell, Especially If You’re Over 50
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 examine the risks and...