Steps to Love your child in recovery Release expectation Champion wins Love fearlessly Realize everything is ok Recovery one day at a time mom as spectator This is what I woke up to this morning. You know, being a mom isn’t something anyone gets training for. We have some examples that come before us, but every mom on planet earth knows that this is 100% on the job training, there is no manual, and every single kid is different. Adapt and pivot and cry a lot and worry and try again. And even as our kids are all in their
Stop criticizing I mean it. Stop criticizing. Stop criticizing yourself, others, the situation you’re in, the decisions you’ve made, the decisions you didn’t make, the decisions you’re too afraid to make. Just stop. You are enough. All-day long, You Are Enough. I don’t really mean to yell. Well, kind of I mean to yell. But trust me, I’m yelling at myself first. I woke up today exhausted. It’s not because I work a physical job or even that I spend a lot of time doing a bunch of yard work. It’s the worst kind of exhaustion. The exhaustion that comes
Who actually eats worms? I’ve been pondering my thin skin all day today. Sometimes, I’ll write something and one or two people will comment in a way that I perceive as negative. That perception may or may not be true. But what IS true, is that all of my perceptions of what other people are doing or saying is a direct and CLEAR reflection of what I think about myself. So today’s message is that nobody really likes me. Isn’t that about the silliest thing you’ve read today? Yeah, me too. I sat in that for a bit. Sitting in
Happy Independence Day America! Happy Independence Day, America!!! We were out and about shopping yesterday and I like talking to pretty much everyone. (I’m so glad masks are off so we can connect with our faces again) Without exception, everyone I chatted with was excited to some degree about the holiday. Some were going to BBQs with their friends. Some had a big family gathering they were looking forward to because they don’t get to see their fam very often. Some were just going to enjoy their day off. Universally, we all agreed that we live in a beautiful and
Who are you? I asked this question on Facebook yesterday: Who are you? I got a variety of answers, and am grateful to the varying degrees people shared a little bit of who they are. But I had a little bit of some things on my mind that were the real reason I asked the question. Here’s the context of why. Last weekend, I finally got to spend some time with my best friend’s daughter down in Anchorage. This was the first I was able to see her since her mom died in March. Birdie was my dear friend for