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Staying Sane Through a Global Pandemic

Do you feel like you’re losing track of what day it is, or that the days seem to meld together? Do you feel like you’re losing your mind from being stuck at home alone, with roommates, or worse… family!? Fortunately, ...

Creating a Temporary Normal

In a matter of a few short weeks, our lives have shifted from packed full schedules to the much slower pace of being home bound. Most of us thrive on a routine that is regular and regimented. As we work ...

Becoming Playful Parents

Play comes naturally for children (APT, 2020). It offers an organic platform for young people to process different issues they experience and feel. It may have been a recent move, loss of a loved one, a new classroom or teacher, ...

Beyond Boredom-the lost art of doing nothing

Want your kids to stop whining? Wish they had the imagination and creativity to come up with something to do on their own? It’s easier than you think. So easy in fact, you might second guess yourself.  Here goes….YOU DO ...

Finding Yourself-Part 3

It might feel like a bait and switch to save this for last (haven’t seen the previous posts? Start here,) but the 3rd and final piece that I think is important in the process of finding yourself is….recognizing that you ...

Finding Yourself-Part 2

We’re looking at another way we get in our own way when it comes to knowing ourselves.  If you missed the first part, you can read it here. “The self we begin this journey of knowing with, is the self we ...

Finding Yourself

“In all of creation, identity is a challenge only for humans.  A tulip knows exactly what it is.  It is never tempted by false ways of being.  nor does it face complicated decisions in the process of becoming.  So it is with dogs, rocks, ...