What Do You Want? Do you love that scene from The Notebook, too? The one where Noah is grilling Allie with the question, "What Do YOU want? Not what he wants, or I want, or what they want, but WHAT DO YOU WANT?!" When was the last time that you allowed yourself to ask What [...]
Tag: Parenting
Hey There, September!
Hey There, September! I’ve always LOVED that back-to-school feeling that others seem to dread 😉 Even though my homeschooled kiddos are now grown and graduated, I still get tempted to buy new notebooks, journals, pens, and books. Well, my love of buying classic literature and children’s books to add to my library is a habit [...]
Want to Learn Emotional Resilience in Parenting?
Most parents have what they would consider a "difficult or challenging" child and another child or children who seem "easy" or we could say more "easy-going". But in reality, the child your brain tries to tell you is easier is just one who is less likely to challenge you, your authority, your wishes, and your [...]
Life Should Be Something We CREATE!
Life shouldn’t be just something that happens TO you, but rather something you create with the help of the Holy Spirit who lives IN you! We all have the creative power we need on the inside of us because we ourselves were created in the image of God. We have His creative nature in our [...]
Why We Need to Stop Parenting Our Adult Children
As humans, we are a being that requires nurturing and care throughout our lives. Obviously, when we are babies and children the care of all our needs is provided by a parent or parental figure in our lives. But as we mature, in the teen years, we begin the slow progression of learning to care [...]
It’s Time to Retell Your Story
What's the first thing that comes to mind when you're asked about a painful story in your past? A breakup, a loss, an abandonment, a betrayal? It's time to RETELL your story! We all have different stories in our lives that we have told over and over and over again. We’ve told the same story [...]
You Don’t Have to Feel the Same to Be in Unity
They say your sibling relationship is likely the longest one you will have on earth. Longer than your parents, spouse, or your own children, you will have walked the earth the longest with your siblings. It's important to remember that while you've known each other the longest and went through a large chunk of your [...]
What Are Your Summer Goals?
With my personal coach’s program we do cycles of 90-day goals…but more important than the goal are the thoughts I will need to be thinking to generate the feelings that will drive my action toward the goal I have. My current 90-day goal is To Create More Connection With My Husband! So, what that looks [...]
When Motherhood Doesn’t Look Like You Thought It Would
Has your husband ever come home to walk past your kids, while they are on the couch in front of the TV, to find you in your bed crying just so you could have a break and cry in private? Me, too! I get it. You're overwhelmed, and overstimulated, and tired, and one of your [...]
What are you making your kids behavior mean about YOU?
https://videopress.com/v/eBE9uIfs?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true It’s so easy to make "motherhood" an idol in our lives. We, Mamas, tend to think that our job is to produce perfect Christian children and we judge ourselves based on how “Christian” our kids turned out. But we do not get to control our kids’ outcomes, whether they are 8 or 28. The [...]
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