I asked listeners to share the tough scenarios they expect to encounter during the holidays and Christmas. I will start with Part 1, going through the themes of scenarios and sharing an idea on a shift you can try to make this season, from a counsellor’s perspective. The goal is to give you some tools … Read more
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I’ve been thinking a lot about the time in my life where everything seemed to suck. Parenting was depleting all my resources, I felt in over my head on a daily basis. My marriage was bookended with resentment on both sides, I knew we were both so lost and angry. I felt restless and unproductive … Read more
The first time I heard about scarcity and abundance mindset it was explained through the Leah and Rachel story in the bible. They were sisters, one was ‘form’ and one was ‘function’. It seems whenever there is more than one sister, people apply this subconscious scale to them and rate who was blessed with the … Read more
Identity clutter is a concept I shared in a Simple Saturdays email (make sure to subscribe if you don’t already!) and had such a great response I thought it would be worth expanding on. I shared the story about how I bought all these fancy flours to make this cool bread from a recipe … Read more
Anxiety in motherhood took over my parenting, my marriage and my happiness I came across this really interesting article. It lists five types of mothering styles: perfectionist(she is hypercritical and controlling), unpredictable (she parents based on the mood she’s in), best friend (she avoids taking on the ‘parent’ role), me-first (her kid’s job is to make her ‘shine’) and … Read more
We all have a vision of the mother we will be. Then we have kids. No matter how many kids we have or how close together, I think we all experience this deviation from what we hoped for as mothers and what we become. WHEN DID I STOP ENJOYING MY KIDS? In my case, I … Read more
Alternate Title: Go On Road Trips, They Said! It’s Fun, They Said! I thought I should check in with the ‘lists‘ we made of how we wanted to parent our kids. We set some clear ideas on things we wanted to do from the mundane to the epic. We wrote out qualities we wanted our kids … Read more
Alternate title: Why is this crap still in my house? After the initial ‘purges’ I felt good. I got rid of the easy stuff: the garbage, the broken, the ‘I don’t even really like this’, or the ‘that was so college Me’ Inspired by @sophiemar12 to clean my bedroom and hit the jackpot … Read more
Dear friend, Today my heart ached for you, and I don’t mean that as cliché. I clutched my hands to my chest and winced, there was a grief inside me, shooting down to the deep parts of my love for you. A love, our love, so knowing and intuitive that I can feel your pain … Read more
I really have no clue what is gonna work when it comes to parenting. I can do trial and error or get loaded down with all the ever-changing statistics; google science, and unwelcome advice available from my local grocery store cashier. At the end of the day, almost every experienced mother will tell you to … Read more