De-cluttering Is A Healthy Detachment –
Spring cleaning is an old concept that has grown beyond dusting behind the sofa. Spring cleaning can mean a deeper kind of de-cluttering that extends from our personal belongings to our destructive personal relationships as well. The KonMari method of de-cluttering and organizing asks that each item (or person in our story) under consideration be […]
Questions Children Of Alcoholics Ask Their Therapists
“Will I be like my dad?” “My whole family are addicts; does this mean I’ll be one too?” Many children of an alcoholic parent are driven to “not end up like” that parent. Unfortunately, what we resist only persists. These adult children often create a life that’s fertile for alcoholism or other addictive behaviors. Anxiety, […]
It’s Not Too Late To Keep Your Resolutions
We’re rapidly approaching the second month of 2019, so it’s the perfect time to ask: How is your resolve doing? Are the habit changes you have taken on starting to take hold? Or…not so much? According to Inc.com, the most popular resolutions for 2019 are: Diet or eat healthier Exercise more Lose weight Save more […]
Do Excuses Keep You Caged
We’re often beating ourselves up over something that has happened in the past, believing that there is something wrong with our ‘gut’ or our intuition. If only we could use a magic wand to break free from our excuse for anything and everything that makes us unhappy. But, would we choose relationships in which we […]
Mom’s Wish
Mom’s wish was too hard for me to fulfill on my first Mother’s Day without her. On her special day she wanted another mom to get the gift she loved. Here’s why it took me time to honor her, her way. January 2014 mom was diagnosed with Stage IV pancreatic cancer. But mom was tough, […]
New Year’s Resolution
The temperature is -12 outside and my normally can’t-wait-to-go-outside dogs are just plain uninterested in going out; they are content to stay all snuggled and warm inside. The birds, however, are alive with chatter and activity this morning… especially at the big evergreen, where yesterday I hung a dozen peanut butter rolls. The feeder, too, […]