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How to Restore an Estranged Family Relationship-image

How to Restore an Estranged Family Relationship

My heart has been heavy with so many people in my life- friends and clients alike who feel distance and estrangement in their relationships. Something has happened, whether it was a clear breach or a slow distancing. Moms who feel...

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Five Relationship Myths That Keep You Unhappy-image

Five Relationship Myths That Keep You Unhappy

1. If I tell him what I want him to do, then it’s not genuine if he does it I often have this conversation with my clients: “What are your needs or what do you want from him?” I’ll ask....

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When your relationship is changing what do you do?-image

When your relationship is changing what do you do?

It’s painful when an important person in your life stops showing up in the same way. How do you hang on to a relationship and yet let go at the same time when things have changed? Maybe you’re a mother...

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Why All The Relationship Advice Isn’t Working For You-image

Why All The Relationship Advice Isn’t Working For You

I have been listening to relationship podcasts, following other relationship experts on social and all of them give very good advice, but as I have been consuming it, I found myself realizing NONE of it will work with certain relationships....

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How To Own Your Extra When You Feel Like Too Much-image

How To Own Your Extra When You Feel Like Too Much

At least once a week, a woman in my practice says, I feel like my needs are just too much. I felt like too much as a child and I feel like too much in my marriage or with my...

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How to Make Peace With Uncertainty in Your Relationship-image

How to Make Peace With Uncertainty in Your Relationship

I remember being a young newlywed and I was young- 19 when I got married. My husband is significantly older than I am and he had a close friend in her 40’s. She was divorcing her husband of 20 years....

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Coparenting During the Holidays with Tammy Daughtry-image

Coparenting During the Holidays with Tammy Daughtry

The holidays have snuck up on us and for many this time is filled with warm thoughts of time with family and friends. But for an increasing number of women, this time can spell dread as you think about spending...

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When You Compare Your Relationship and Yours Comes Up Short-image

When You Compare Your Relationship and Yours Comes Up Short

I used to be that girl who felt jealous of other's relationships. You know, THOSE couples who finish each other's sentences, do everything together, say they never fight, are truly the best of friends - maybe even wear matching outfits...

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How Strong Women Keep Promises To Themselves-image

How Strong Women Keep Promises To Themselves

Do you make a promise to yourself and break them over and over again? When you don’t keep your promises to yourself, you send a powerful message to yourself about your trustworthiness. When you don’t trust someone, it permeates into...

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Making Space for Your Sadness When Everyone Wants You Strong-image

Making Space for Your Sadness When Everyone Wants You Strong

I’m seeing a trend of general sadness with my clients as the world opens up. And if they’re feeling it, my guess is that you may be too. It seems we should be celebrating, but many are telling me that...

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Why Being a Strong Woman Is Not Enough-image

Why Being a Strong Woman Is Not Enough

Strong woman. -This term is thrown about so much that I’m even a little sick of hearing it. Were the pioneer women, the immigrant women, the slave women who are the foundation of this country, who built this country with...

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The Curse of Capability- How To Keep Your Talents From Ruining You-image

The Curse of Capability- How To Keep Your Talents From Ruining You

When I was a little girl, I was told that God gives us talents and we are not to squander them. I took that super seriously. Really seriously! I believed that if I wasted my talents, I would wake up...

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Removing Chaos From Your Life When You’re a People Pleaser-image

Removing Chaos From Your Life When You’re a People Pleaser

Are you feeling overcommitted? Irritable? Do you feel like you find yourself taking on too much or saying yes and then feeling overwhelmed- like there is no space for you in your own life? Here’s the truth and it’s okay...

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What Strong Women Do With Regret-image

What Strong Women Do With Regret

Regret. That six-letter word can immediately garner up images long pressed down and forgotten. There are two types of regrets. Big R regrets and little R regrets. The little regrets can be habitual regrets that eat at your self-esteem, like...

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Your Anxiety And Depression Has Nothing To Do With Your Faith-image

Your Anxiety And Depression Has Nothing To Do With Your Faith

Let me tell you why your faith has nothing to do with your anxiety. Jesus, who is described as fully human and fully God, sweat blood on the night that he died. This is a severe anxiety reaction. He is...

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Emotional Spring Cleaning – How to Emotionally Declutter Your Brain-image

Emotional Spring Cleaning – How to Emotionally Declutter Your Brain

About a year or so ago, I became obsessed with the idea of minimalism. I read minimalists books and set about finding ways to declutter my space, take up less and live more simply. I believe I developed this bent,...

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How To Stay Strong And Trust Again When You’ve Been Hurt Before-image

How To Stay Strong And Trust Again When You’ve Been Hurt Before

This article is inspired by a question I received from a listener. First, I love receiving your feedback and am always happy to address your questions. I knew many women would relate to her question, so decided to make an...

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How Strong Women Do Boundaries-image

How Strong Women Do Boundaries

How Strong women do boundaries Boundaries. This sometimes seems like a bad word- or at least an ominous one. When I say it in session, I hear an audible sigh. The push back I hear is a concern that when...

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Is Authenticity Fake Strength?-image

Is Authenticity Fake Strength?

Is authenticity fake strength? Is authenticity another way to overshare and accept something in ourselves that doesn’t further our greatest potential? Or is it a means to connect with others in a deep way. The answer is yes and yes....

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You’re Not Broken, Just Bent-image

You’re Not Broken, Just Bent

You are not broken, just bent. I can distinctly remember a few times in my life where I felt like I just broke. Literally. It was almost an audible sound and physical snap deep in my core. Maybe that's happened...

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