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Why Your New Year’s Resolutions Fail By January

Why Your New Year’s Resolutions Fail By January

80 percent according to Business Insider, actually. To make matters worse, only 8 percent of people even achieve their resolutions in the end. You can find link after link talking about how those people manage to successfully stick with their resolutions. In fact,...

When Grief Is a Holiday Guest

When Grief Is a Holiday Guest

Grief doesn’t follow any particular calendar or timeline, but for many people the end of the year tends to be difficult. And by “the end of the year”, I really mean right around October to somewhere around January/February – so much happens in these few months. Some...

Unplug Your Kids

Unplug Your Kids

Christmas had passed, and with it the usual onslaught of ads urging us to buy with abandon. One December commercial showed how blissful holiday travel could be with children tucked happily away with a video in the back of the new family van.  With apologies in advance...

What Is Wrong with Us?

What Is Wrong with Us?

Sometimes, we can sense there is a problem in our relationship, but we aren't sure what it is. We feel disconnected, but it's hard to pinpoint how it got to this point and why we feel that way. Take this quiz to help you figure out what is happening in your...

Does My Kid Need a Therapist?

Does My Kid Need a Therapist?

Just like with adults, there are a wide variety of issues that might bring children to therapy. These run the gamut from needing improved coping skills for daily life stress to dealing with significant trauma or mental health concerns. The first thing to understand...

Baby, You’re Worth It

Baby, You’re Worth It

LOVING YOURSELF IS A PROCESS. Knowing your worth can be an even longer process. Sometimes a life long process. But, I want you to know that you deserve to look at yourself in the mirror, or simply think about yourself, and feel pride and happiness, and WORTHINESS....

How to Find a Mentor

How to Find a Mentor

While traveling with a wise and respected community leader, I jumped at the chance to learn from her.  Never one to pass up an opportunity, I explained why I admired her, then asked for guidance in an area with which I’d struggled. With grace, and refreshing honesty,...

Women and the Power of Mentoring

Women and the Power of Mentoring

She stood at the sink, frustrated, staring out the window at the new 1963 Dodge parked at the curb. She needed to get to the store, and they had just purchased the car so she could get around during the day. The problem was her husband hadn’t had time yet to teach her...

How Do You Fight?

How Do You Fight?

Every couple I meet with says the same statement in the first session, "We have no idea where to even begin." Most of the time they say this because they have been disconnected or fighting for so long that there is SO much to tell. I usually ask them to think back to...