Tips For Dog Owners In Recovery

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Dog Owners In Recovery May Need Guidance Dog owners like me need education on how to be the best dog parent ever. Years ago I was a ghostwriter for a dog trainer and learned many tricks of the dog trade that have come in handy over the years as a long-time dog owner. The reason […]

Assessment: What’s Your Food and Body Story

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Assessment: What’s Your Food and Body Story? Do you know your food and body story? There is so much stored from the past but until we ask the questions and do the work we don’t know what’s what. In this assessment, let’s find out the facts about where your ideas about food and weight come […]

Healing Your Inner Critic: Rewriting Mom’s Voice

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Healing Your Inner Critic Isn’t As Hard As You Think Healing your inner critic may sound intimidating but it is not as hard as you think. Awareness about when it happens and whose voice Do you ever catch yourself thinking, “I should’ve done better,” or “Why can’t I ever get it right?” That voice in […]

Mother Daughter Trauma Quiz: Are You Repeating the Past in Your Relationships

Mother Daughter Trauma Quiz

Mother Daughter Trauma Quiz: Are You Repeating the Past in Your Relationships Are you ready for the mother daughter trauma quiz? Not sure? Here’s the question – are your adult relationships troubled in different ways? Did you have a difficult or toxic mom? It could be that unhealed issues from mom and childhood are STILL […]

Dear Hopeless

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Let’s Start With Hopeless Isn’t Helpless I’ve been hopeless many times around many things, so I’m qualified for this one. Someone wrote to us from our newsletter and asked for some advice. They feel hopeless about a painful and tragic family situation and wanted some thoughts on how to feel better. Let’s start with it’s […]

How Mother Daughter Trauma Sabotages Your Relationships

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Love, But Never Enough: How Unhealed Mother Daughter Trauma Sabotages Adult Relationships I had mother daughter trauma and that’s why I write about it. For me, my mother daughter trauma seeped into my entire life influencing all my relationships for the worse. Here’s why… The mother-daughter bond is our first blueprint for love. When that […]