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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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Why You Should Let Your Kids Fail-image

Why You Should Let Your Kids Fail

I am not letting you off the hook as parents, but we seriously work way too hard sometimes. I’m talking about myself here. Scenario: I just got back home from taking my son to school. I have a million things...

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Abstinence. What About Sexual Compatibility?-image

Abstinence. What About Sexual Compatibility?

So, a client got me thinking. He was discussing waiting until marriage to have sex. He expressed his respect for that choice, but also his concern as a dating, single male. He said, “What if I marry her and then find out that...

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Steps To Accomplishing Your Goals-image

Steps To Accomplishing Your Goals

What have you always wanted to do? What do you dream about doing that you dismiss or put off or tell yourself that it can’t happen now or you just have to wait until the time is right? Everyone has...

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When Your Friends and Family Can’t Get Over the Affair-image

When Your Friends and Family Can’t Get Over the Affair

No one knows for sure, but it is estimated that affairs affect 40- 70% of all marriages. Most affairs are eventually discovered. During this devastating time, people often disclose the affair to friends and family in search of necessary support. So what...

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