How To Create Affirmations To Support Your Goals

Identifying your weaknesses and creating powerful affirmations to address them is a very positive thing to do. But it will have a lot more meaning for you if you link your affirmations to the challenging goals that you have set for yourself. You do have goals, don’t you? If you don’t then you need to […]

You Need To Create A Plan To Achieve Your Goal

We always encourage people to think big when they are deciding on their goals. It is best not to concern yourself about how you will achieve a goal while you are deciding what you want. This is because you may experience negative thoughts and this can put you offsetting the goal in the first place. […]

How To Set Goals That Will Inspire You To Achieve Them

There are many experts out there who will tell you to set goals in specific ways. The issue is that you need to set your goals in the best way that will work for you. Achieving challenging goals is not easy and if your goals do not inspire you then you will not achieve them. […]

You Are Not Alone

You Are Not Alone Family relationships are not always easy. There are divorces, stepparents, siblings, and sibling rivalries. Step-brothers and sisters, half-brothers and sisters, in-laws. Aunts and uncles and cousins and grandparents. Deaths. Births. All of these and all of the possible combinations. Family dynamics are complex, and then you throw in the personalities of […]

Our toxic relationship cycle, continued

When you start to unpack the dynamic between my mother and me, you pick out classic narcissism signs with her behavior toward me and my reactions. When I first read Will, I Ever Be Good Enough?: Healing the Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers by Dr. Karyl McBride Ph.D. It was such an eye-opener; I highlighted pages, […]

Our toxic relationship cycle

It has been about two weeks since the blow-up with my mother. It has the classic earmark of falling into the cycle of our toxic relationship. Build up –> Explosion (fight) –> Silent Treatment (Stonewalling) –> Nothing Happened (gaslights and blameshifting). However, I feel different this time. • It’s okay to let go of a […]

Time to say good bye

I cried today, like absolutely bawling my eyes out cried today, in front of my kids, on the phone with my ex-husband. It was raw, honest, and exactly what I need to solidify my choices to shore up my boundaries against my very toxic narcissistic mother. What is Narcissism? The DSM-5 defines narcissistic personality disorder […]

20 ways to manage anxiety (that you can start from home, today)

Learning to manage anxiety has never been more important. I read somewhere recently that Google searches for anxiety relief were up 800%. It’s clear the pandemic is taking its toll on mental health and emotional wellbeing. Add to that the daily drama of politics, your family dynamics, economic uncertainty, fears of your future, and how […]