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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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What To Do When Your Partner Triggers You-image

What To Do When Your Partner Triggers You

What is a trigger anyway? What To Do When Your Partner Triggers You Basically, you can’t live in this world without collecting some wounds. Experiences of being unheard, devalued, deceived, criticized, or betrayed are examples of these wounds. Once you’ve...

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When You and Your Partner Disagree on a Big Issue-image

When You and Your Partner Disagree on a Big Issue

Do you and your partner disagree on a big issue? Maybe he’s a republican, you’re a democrat. Maybe he thinks COVID is a scam and you are fearful of your health. Maybe he doesn’t care about the movement and you...

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Strong Woman, It’s Time For Some Reckoning-image

Strong Woman, It’s Time For Some Reckoning

Strong woman, it's time for some reckoning. I saw this post on Sherri Hunter’s Instagram page. It was written by @Lesliedwight What if 2020 isn’t canceled? What if 2020 is the year we’ve been waiting for? A year so uncomfortable,...

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Every Season Matters (Coronavirus Pandemic)-image

Every Season Matters (Coronavirus Pandemic)

This weird season- this waiting season in which we are all cocooned is not a waste. I know this because every time I felt that I was in a holding pattern, for every time I know my life was derailed...

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Why Strong Women Have More Anxiety-image

Why Strong Women Have More Anxiety

Your anxiety is not a reflection of your strength and your anxiety is not a deficit in your faith. I put a video out on instagram where I talked about why your anxiety is not a deficit in your faith....

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Stop Trying To Control It All-image

Stop Trying To Control It All

How many times have you said or thought the words “Just let me do it”? One of the most challenging things for a strong woman who strives to have things a certain way in her life is that she’s also...

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Why Strong Women Stay in Bad Relationships-image

Why Strong Women Stay in Bad Relationships

Today I’m talking about why smart, strong women stay in LOW-quality relationships and what you can do about it. I’m not talking about physically abusive relationships, although some low-quality relationships do have some verbal or emotional abuse. I’m talking about...

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The 4 Communication Styles That Predict Divorce-image

The 4 Communication Styles That Predict Divorce

Did you know that the issues in your marriage have little to do with the health of your marriage? It's not too surprising because I always talk about self-talk and how important it is. Well, guess what? The way you...

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When he talks to his baby mama in secret-image

When he talks to his baby mama in secret

I get a lot of questions from partners who say that their boyfriends or husbands talk to the baby mama in secret and this is painful. This is a pain point in relationships and it's damaging relationships so I gotta...

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To the mom terrified of homeschooling her kids (Coronavirus Pandemic)-image

To the mom terrified of homeschooling her kids (Coronavirus Pandemic)

Due to the current Corona crisis, everyone is stuck at home. Kids can’t go to school, so Parents have been forced into homeschooling. I’m a homeschool mom, but don’t write me off as not understanding your situation. Although I’ve homeschooled...

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Finding strength in uncertain times (Coronavirus Pandemic)-image

Finding strength in uncertain times (Coronavirus Pandemic)

  Most of us have someone that looks up to us. Whether it is a child, a relative, someone we manage or an employee. We women are leaders. I did a podcast about recognizing our place as leaders, you can...

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