Let’s Get Real: 10 Confessions from “The Psychologist, The Mom, & Me” It’s time to get real: I’ve been in a bit of a “funk” the past few days. It happens more often than I’d like—I’m sailing along, the “do-it-all-mom” one minute, and bursting into tears, collapsing...
As I remind myself all the time, there are no problems in life: only situations. It is our perception that turns a situation into a problem. That being said, we all have many “situations” in our lives we would like to change or wish were different....
Beyond Resolutions: Discovering Your New Year's Vision My New Year's Vision "A few years back, tired of 'New Year’s Resolutions' and needing an entirely new approach, I developed the idea of a 'yearly theme'. What I really wanted was to move away from the small, too-often forgotten...
10 Ways to Practice Gratitude Today! When asked what 3 things he would like people to know about gratitude, top researcher, Robert Emmons, said: “First, the practice of gratitude can increase happiness levels by around 25%. Second, this is not hard to achieve--a few hours writing...
10 Benefits of Practicing Gratitude It’s easy to say we’re grateful—we’re grateful for our family, for our children, for our friends, for our spouse. We’re grateful for our home, our country, our life! And we mean it too. We are grateful. We do feel blessed. But then,...
5 Lessons from the Transtheoretical Model of Change that Will Change Your Life! Change is simply a fact of life. Just look at your body--do you still look, feel, or act like you did when you were an infant? Of course not! (Or, hopefully not the “act”...
Learning Self-Love: 5 Tricks for Treating Yourself More Kindly Why is it so tricky to be kind to ourselves? I see it all the time, especially with women—we hold ourselves to impossible standards while cutting others slack, we carry around guilt and self-criticisms, and we fail to...
10 Major Mistakes I’ve Made this Month & Why It’s OK (From a Psychologist & Mom of 6) It’s been heartwarming this week to see women congratulating women for “being real” in Facebook posts, and Moms tweeting to moms, “It’s ok! Hang in there! None of us is...