Tag: parenting
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A Mom’s Tale: Reflections from the Heart
This past Saturday was my daughter’s first high school Homecoming dance. I don’t know if it is because of our recent experience of running from the gun, recognizing how fast time flies, and/or feeling for people like the Guttenbergs and Gabby Petito’s family (and so many families like them) who never get to see their […]
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Daily Aligning with Love, Abundance, and Peace #245
I’m grateful for the growing opportunities from parenting. Talk about Divine connections, Divine timing, Divine guidance, and tapping into the Universal messages, kids will be our guiding lights into our own light and our own darkness. I get to see all sides of myself by being a parent—growing opportunities GALORE! But…only if I want them. […]
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Daily Aligning with Love, Abundance, and Peace #124
I’m grateful for what being a parent teaches me. Before I had kids, I was 100% invested in my career. I was in one dysfunctional relationship after another. I wasn’t ready to see the inner workings of me, I wanted to be better, but not by working from the inside-out (never worked). I made a […]
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The Mama Bear: The Lessons in the Calm and the Claws
I will be the first to tell you, I’m not perfect. I make mistakes, but I do my best to do right by my kids. I have strengths, and I have weaknesses. My brain is not going to work in exactly the same way as ANY other mother’s and/or caretaker’s brain. Some people will agree […]
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Struggle: A Mom’s Tale
As a follower of love and an inspired child of God, I can reach some wonderful places inside myself. I can be a light for friends and strangers. I can show love in ways that many people just don’t understand. Being able to do all this doesn’t mean I’m perfect. I struggle. Most of all […]
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Raising Children in A World of Addiction
Facing addiction from the outside is hard enough, but when children are involved it is a whole different ball game. In the past few years there has been a significant increase in grandparents taking the role of caretakers due to kids getting taken away from addicted parent(s) or one parent having to take on […]
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Leaving Autopilot and Becoming Present
I used to live everyday in autopilot. I was caught up in the same routine, thinking the same things, doing the same things. The insanity of the situation was I expected different results. I hated the life I was living. I couldn’t look at myself in the mirror. What is scary about autopilot is that […]
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I’m Not Stupid After All: School Testing and Self-Worth
The divergent thinker has considered the problem from all angles and made connections between the question and each of the potential answers. He has now spent four times as long on the question as the person who is tuned to think convergently, and his likelihood of choosing the “right” answer is still no better than […]
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10 Positive Lessons I Learned From my Parents
“When you know and respect your own Inner Nature, you know where you belong. You also know where you don’t belong.” -Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh p. 41 1. Life is not always a family-friendly T.V. show. I grew up in a time where all families on T.V. looked perfect. They handled problems with ease, […]
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Embrace the Breakdown
When I was 17, I struggled with severe depression. I could send myself into a tailspin within seconds. It got so bad that I agreed to be admitted into a hospital to get help. I used to believe that it was only going to get worse, and that there was no hope in my future. […]