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Woman, Quit Trying To Save Everyone!

A friend confided in me today that her 17 year old daughter is pregnant. My heart aches for her and her daughter. I remember being 15 and pregnant and how scary that time was for me in my life and...

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How Busy Women Fool Ourselves Into Thinking We Are Happy-image

How Busy Women Fool Ourselves Into Thinking We Are Happy

So you’ve been told that you need to get educated, get a great job, get married, buy a house, get a raise, make babies and juggle all those balls for many years and that will make you happy. On most...

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How To Get Out of A Funk-image

How To Get Out of A Funk

A funk is not the same as a clinical depression, but sometimes, it feels like it. I remember soon after my son was born, something was bothering me and I was all prepared to sink into a funk for a...

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It’s never too late to live your best life-image

It’s never too late to live your best life

Most of us have dreams, ideas, passions that we would love to pursue. We think of them from time to time, then we tell ourselves, “but I can’t do that!” You make up a reason: I’m too old, I don’t...

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Newly Single? How to Financially Get Over Your Ex-image

Newly Single? How to Financially Get Over Your Ex

This article was originally published at HiCharlie.com by Laura Gariepy | Feb 25, 2019 Breakups are painful and confusing. All of a sudden, your life is completely different and you now need to deal with everything on your own —...

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Is your busyness like a drug?-image

Is your busyness like a drug?

I know firsthand how useful busyness can be in your life. We wear it as a badge of honor, but it can also be a shield of protection. Just like any drug, it starts out small, unintentional. No one sets...

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Baby Mama Drama- When You’re The Baby Mama-  7 Tips to Handling His New Relationship-image

Baby Mama Drama- When You’re The Baby Mama- 7 Tips to Handling His New Relationship

The day you gave birth to your beautiful baby, you never imagined you would be in this situation. We all know the term- Baby Mama.  No one purposefully becomes one. But it’s the reality of our modern world and it’s...

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Why No Relationship Will Make You Happy-image

Why No Relationship Will Make You Happy

  Why He Can’t Make You Happy I am talking to single women, married women, dating women- all women here! No relationship can make you happy!   When someone says to me – “He just doesn’t make me happy anymore”.......

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When It’s Okay For A Strong Woman to Quit-image

When It’s Okay For A Strong Woman to Quit

     You’re reading this because there is something in your life that you have an inkling you need to let go. Whether it’s a job, a relationship, a dream or a life path, you know you really shouldn’t be...

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Is Baby Mama Drama Hurting Your Relationship? Here’s How To Fix It-image

Is Baby Mama Drama Hurting Your Relationship? Here’s How To Fix It

So your man is a pretty wonderful guy. Things are going so well. You might have even married him. What in the world could mess this up? Oh, the mother of his kids! Baby mama drama began with the start...

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6 Survival Tips For Moms Going Back To School-image

6 Survival Tips For Moms Going Back To School

So, you’ve decided to take the plunge. There have been a million reasons over the years why you couldn’t go back to school, but now, all the stars are almost aligned (Let’s face it, there’s never a truly perfect moment)...

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How To Make A Stressed Mom Happy-image

How To Make A Stressed Mom Happy

We all know if mom isn’t happy, no one is. A staggering 70% of mothers report feeling stressed out most of the time (my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/stress-and-women). If you are married to a stressed out mom, you may be wondering, how can I...

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How To Cope With Change When You Don’t Have Time For A Breakdown-image

How To Cope With Change When You Don’t Have Time For A Breakdown

Life is what happens while we are busy making other plans. Change is hard. If only the good times would stay forever.  Some women seem to be able to roll with the punches while others curl up in a fetal...

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Must Have Sex Conversations With Your Teen Daughter-image

Must Have Sex Conversations With Your Teen Daughter

Are you that mom who would rather stick an icepick through your eye than talk to your teen daughter about sex (seriously, it doesn’t have to be that bad)? Or maybe the idea of sex conversations makes you squirm a...

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How To Work On Saving Your Marriage When You’re Doing It Alone-image

How To Work On Saving Your Marriage When You’re Doing It Alone

When your marriage is in a free fall of disconnectedness, anger, or resentment, it can feel like you are standing on the sidelines watching a train wreck, helpless to stop it. It’s terrifying. Even worse, if your spouse has already...

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When Parenting Is Disappointing, Try This-image

When Parenting Is Disappointing, Try This

Is this taboo? Can I talk about when this joyous thing called parenting is disappointing? Whether you have a newborn who is screaming all night or a 40 yr old adult child living downstairs, there comes a point (well, many of...

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Here’s How To Know If Your Boyfriend Is A Charity Case & Not Marriage Material-image

Here’s How To Know If Your Boyfriend Is A Charity Case & Not Marriage Material

What is a fixer? A fixer is someone who feels best when helping others. If they see someone who is less fortunate, their first inclination is to try to remedy the situation. They have a keen sense of the unfairness in...

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When Life Closes a Door and You Just Want to Bang on It- Getting Over Loss-image

When Life Closes a Door and You Just Want to Bang on It- Getting Over Loss

I recently sat with a client who was devastated over the loss of a dream. This door was clearly closed in his life and there was no real chance of him ever achieving it. There is very little in life as painful...

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7 Ways to Embrace Now-image

7 Ways to Embrace Now

Change. It is a certainty. It never ceases to amaze me how life can completely change in the blink of an eye. It invigorates me and leaves me a little terrified at the same time. We often go about subconsciously believing that we will live...

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How Your Body Teaches Your Kids About Prejudice-image

How Your Body Teaches Your Kids About Prejudice

Why does it feel so uncomfortable to talk about race and racism in this country? Deep down in our gut we know that something just isn’t right and that makes us squirm. Humans strive for internal consistency and when it’s...

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