A Strategy for Grace: For yourself and others

A Strategy for Grace: For yourself and others

by | Dec 8, 2019 | Uncategorized

The holidays (and regular days!) can create a lower stress threshold, causing even simple things others say or do to become annoying. When chronic annoyance is present, it is the annoyed, not the annoyer, who has some work to do. Impatience, annoyance,...
The Essentials of Shame, Part 3

The Essentials of Shame, Part 3

by | Jun 16, 2019 | Uncategorized

The Essentials of Shame, Part 3 In Part 1, we talked about why shame is chosen. In Part 2, we dove into how each parenting style affects the development of shame. What now? What if you carry shame from childhood, or can see that you say and do things that may be...
The Essentials of Shame Part 2

The Essentials of Shame Part 2

by | Mar 29, 2019 | Uncategorized

Click here to read Part 1. It’s useful to understand how and why shame is chosen when we are children. Once this is understood, shame can begin to be healed and released. For parents, this healing work helps them build a parenting style that minimizes the development...
The Essentials of Shame

The Essentials of Shame

by | Mar 14, 2019 | Uncategorized

Today I’d like to talk about something that’s an important foundation of our work together–healing shame. This will be done in 4 parts.  Part 1 today.To start, it’s important to understand the origin of shame, why we are...
Teenagers and Porn

Teenagers and Porn

by | Jan 20, 2019 | Uncategorized

There are many ways children can have exposure to porn, even if they are closely supervised, and are being raised by conscientious parents. Here are some of them: Your child’s friend or friend’s older sibling exposes your child to porn either at your house, or when...