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Five-Year Plan
“Five years… 260 weeks…1,825 days…2,333,000 minutes…” I have always been a dreamer. I have always had great joy dreaming about what my life will look like in the future. As a young woman, I always...
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Holiday Questions to Get Families Talking
As we turn the corner into the last week before Christmas, I have been thinking about the numerous family gatherings that we will all soon be attending. Will they be stressful? Are you looking forward...
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Goal Setting: Specific Questions for Moms to ask Daughters
The new year brings so much promise. It’s a starting and stopping point that has always given my winter sluggishness a much needed kick in the pants. As a mom, I like to take this opportunity to ask my...
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Doing What ‘They’ Say Can’t Be Done
I love being underestimated. I have been underestimated my whole life and by a myriad of different people – friends, teachers, and adults. Seems that this is a crazy and common occurrence that goes on...
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Resolution 2014
Have you set a resolution for 2014? I try to set at least one each year. I am very calculated and thoughtful in selecting a resolution. I want to pick one that will benefit me, that will be obtainable...
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Motivation Breakdown
What immobilizes you? What puts you in a place where even the happiest of tasks become impossible? These immobilizers, I like to call my kryptonite or triggers. These are things that send me into the...
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Desire and Your Teen
Have you talked with your daughters about desire? It is such a difficult subject and a very different conversation from talking about sex. When I was my daughter’s age, I had no understanding of...
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Tragedy in Our Community: How Well Do You Know Your Daughter’s Friends?
This week 16 year old Anastasia Greer was gunned down in a murder suicide. Her rumored astringed boyfriend, 15-year-old Matthew Bolton, murdered her then turned the gun on himself. According to Phoenix...
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We Still Need Basic Home Management Skills
When I was a child we had Home Ec Classes. What is Home Ec? Home economics is sometimes referred to as family and consumer sciences or Home Ec., human ecology or home science. Home Ec, a class...
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Impending Empty Nest
I have never thought of myself as an empty nest candidate. I have a super full life. I run in a million different directions all at one time. I have always figured that when my daughters grew up that I...
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Journal Prompt: What gave you joy today?
There has been a lot in my life to distract me from my writing this past year. I thought I might be able to will myself against the distractions, but it didn’t work. I tried to read myself into...
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Secrets
Do you keep secrets? Who do you keep secrets from, your friends, your family, your partner, or maybe you even keep things from yourself? So what’s the difference between a secret and information that...
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Traveling With Our Children This Summer
Instilling Adventure and Curiosity Anticipation built as we tried to figure out where to stay, what sights to see and when to go. My eight-year-old daughter sitting on my lap as we peruse through hotel...
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My 2014 Summer Reading List Part One
Sweet summer time! Schools out scream and shout! I love summer time so much! Arizona summers are sometimes tricky because of the temperatures that reach and surpass 110 degrees for multiple days in a...
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100 Happy Days
“Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.” ~ Steven Pressfield, author of The War of Art Pressfield goes on to say, “Resistance...
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Burn List
“We are only as sick as the secrets we keep.” ~ Unknown I have a few things in my past that when I think of them, I shutter and feel sick. These things range in severity from ridiculous small to...
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Potential
“I think I made you up inside my head. ~Sylvia Plath March 1993 – This is my good bye to you I keep holding onto a memory. A memory of how you used to be. You may never be that person again. I don’t...
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Boredom – It’s a good thing
When I was eight years old, I remember spending hours and hours alone in my imagination. I would listen to music and sing and dance around my room as though I were performing on stage for thousands of...
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Hedging and Using Passive Language
Next time you communicate in writing or speaking, whether in a group of people at work or in your family, take note of how many times you hedge in your communication. Over the past few months I have...
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RAINN’s July Survivor Spotlight: Tamra Wade
Bellow is my interview with RAINN for their July Survivor Spotlight. My heartfelt thank you to RAINN for handling me and all survivors with such care and empathy. Special thanks you to Haley and...
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