Affirmations have been on the self-help scene for decades, but what exactly are they, and more importantly, do affirmations work? My 8-year-old daughter has been scared to go to sleep lately. She says she wakes up in the middle of the night and lies in bed scared (too scared to leave the relative …
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I distinctly remember the first time my husband and I did a mini-getaway with our first baby. Gone were the relaxing dinners out, the go-where-we-want-when-we-want attitude. Instead, we had naps to adhere to, bottles to heat, and an overtired one-year-old to appease. I remember lying next …
She pulled out her white board. In my experience, breakthroughs come when a therapist pulls out a white board. Moments before, I'd been unloading my feelings on her. I didn't expect anything to change; I just knew I needed to get the weight off my chest for a while. "I love my kids," I …
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Over and over again, my husband and I kept having the same fight. He would routinely get home from work at 8pm, which happened to be RIGHT after I got our toddler boys down for the night. He’d come home with oddly high energy, after a full day of problem solving and collaborating with …
The other day, my daughter came to me in despair, big tears sliding down her plump cheeks as she told me, "Mia said I shouldn't have colored my dolphin blue, because dolphins are actually GRAY, and that made me feel bad!" She melted into sobs with those last five words: "That made me feel …
Growing up, my home was a collection of other people's things. My parents bought plenty of things new, but many of the biggest items in our home didn't come from a store. My dad made some of our furniture—the dining table of my early childhood, some side tables, and the patio furniture out …
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