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Consider This Before You Promise To Change For Your Partner-image

Consider This Before You Promise To Change For Your Partner

Here’s the scenario. Something happened. You messed up again. Your partner gave you an ultimatum or you hit rock bottom on some level. Maybe the scale screamed a number bigger than you have seen or even want to admit. Maybe...

Why Self Love Matters For the Woman of Faith-image

Why Self Love Matters For the Woman of Faith

Today we're talking all about that relationship with yourself and self-love and why for women, especially, it can be a little difficult. And we got to work on that. I don't know if I told this story already - I...

Why You’re Likely to Marry Your Parent (and what you can do about it)-image

Why You’re Likely to Marry Your Parent (and what you can do about it)

I’m sure you’ve thought yourself or heard someone say, “I married my mother” or “I married my father.” Oodles of truth exists in that statement.  Despite our inability to recognize it, we do often marry someone like our mother or our...

Are You Crazy or Are You Being Gaslighted?-image

Are You Crazy or Are You Being Gaslighted?

I once had a client who came in because she was having problems in her relationship with her significant other. All the signs were screaming at her that he was being unfaithful. It was glaringly clear, but every time she...

What to Do While You’re Single and Waiting for Love-image

What to Do While You’re Single and Waiting for Love

Many of the things I write about are not new- maybe my spin on them is unique. But ultimately, I am holding space for this one moment in time for you to focus on this aspect of your life. You...

When A Friendship Needs to End-image

When A Friendship Needs to End

Let me start with a prayer from Author Cole Riley. It is a Prayer for those who have outgrown a friend: Dear God, It is difficult to allow for evolution in our friendships. I confess that I cling to others...

How to Like Your Husband-image

How to Like Your Husband

Sometimes it's a slow realization. Sometimes something happens that hits you over the head and you think, I don't even like this man. It can be a scary place to be when you finally admit it to yourself. As I...

How to Know if You Have Unrealistic Expectations of Your Husband?-image

How to Know if You Have Unrealistic Expectations of Your Husband?

At least a couple of times a week, a client who is feeling some type of angst about a relationship will ask me, am I expecting too much? Am I being realistic? And I’ve noticed, it’s often the ones that...

Are You Becoming Your Husband’s Mother?-image

Are You Becoming Your Husband’s Mother?

I might step on some toes today, but it’s in your best interest, so get ready. Are you acting like a mother or a wife to your spouse? Is your daily mantra a constant telling him to do the things-...

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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