“‘Cause even when your heart is breakin' and you've gone and lost your way.  You're, you're gonna be okay.”

Women need other women in their lives who think they are amazing.  No competition, no jealousy, no hate,

John 1:3 NKJV

This morning, I stopped in the middle of the road…..

As I sit at my desk in my home office, I glance at the clock before my next patient. This is something I talk about so often in my sessions:  Every day, we have a choice.  You can wake up, have everything go wrong, and choose to let it define your day. Or—you can choose to be happy anyway.

“Putting first things first means organizing and executing around your most important priorities.  It is living and being driven by the principles you value most, not by the agendas and forces surrounding you.”  —Stephen Covey

You are stepping into a new stage of life—sending your kids off to college, the military, or another type of leaving the nest.  I’ve done it—twice to college, once to basic training, and once on a deployment across the globe. And let me tell you… motherhood is hard.

Journaling is my number one counseling tool. It’s something anyone can do—children, teens, and adults alike. The key is finding the right approach, and unlike years ago, there are now so many more options available.  I often remind people that journaling feels hard because our thinking around it is skewed. Most of us associate it with the kind of diary we kept as kids—where we either wrote about the worst things that ever happened (“I had to do push-ups at lunch because the gym teacher said I was talking too loud”) or the very best (“I got a note folded into a triangle from my secret admirer!”). Yes, I know I’m showing my age there.