"Give me the child for the first seven years and I will give you the man." - Ignatius of Loyola Throughout the first thirty-some odd years of my own life, I was somewhat conscious of the fact that I had generational habits hanging over my life. In some part of me deep down, [...]
At long last...... Right about 6:15 a.m. I finally shuffled my aching body to the bathroom to brush my teeth. My son was cradled in my right arm, where he'd slept that night, as well as the previous 200 nights. I was only 32 years old, but earlier that week I'd been mistaken by a [...]
"If you do not treat yourself with love and respect, you are remitting a signal that is saying you are not important enough." Rhonda Byrne For a period of my life, it felt like everybody treated me like garbage. My partner didn't respect me and talked down to me in public. I dreaded my son coming [...]
When I became a mom, my default altruistic and codependent nature reached a pinnacle. I wasn’t sleeping, I did every single bedtime, nap time, diaper change, and middle-of the night feeding by myself. My partner at the time was working abroad nearly every week and I had no family in town. Although my body was still in amazing shape (considering I’d just put [...]
1. You aren’t clear about what you want and why We go to therapy for different reasons - depression, anxiety, shit is not working and life does not look the way you want it to. But do you know exactly what you want and more importantly, why? If you’re not talkin about what [...]
"We grow and evolve or we stagnate and die." - Colette Davenport According to Carol Dweck, Ph.D., one of the world’s leading researchers in the field of motivation, “having a fixed mindset means believing your personal traits are fixed.” As it pertains to relationships, here are two problems attributed to a fixed mindset, straight out [...]
The short answer is NO WAY. But you already knew that. The thing about confidence is, when it’s shaky everything is affected. If it’s important to you to be a great mom, keep the spark alive in your marriage, and have a life outside these two roles you can’t have crappy confidence in yourself. See [...]
A few years ago on New Years I resolved to do the Whole 30 Cleanse. It was grueling but totally worth the pain. Last year I resolved to begin writing again after allowing my gift to sit dormant while I bathed in the sweetness of my new baby. I hope it's beginning to bless many people. [...]
On a spectrum of sexual adventurousness, I'm probably just right of the Pope and left of God. I'm unabashedly anti-porn and you won't catch me rocking costumes and rolling 50 Shades Style if I have my way. How I ended up with Amy Schumer's biography The Girl With The Lower Back Tattoo, I may never know. (I suspect Audible recommended [...]
