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Truly Preparing for the Holidays

Navigating Challenging Holiday Dynamics With the Holidays fast approaching, many of us will be traveling to see friends and family members that we haven’t seen in quite some time. This reality brings a myriad of thoughts and feelings – some positive, ...

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!? Maintaining ...

Creating a Temporary Normal

In just a few short weeks, our lives have shifted from packed-full schedules to the much slower pace of being homebound, creating a need for a new temporary normal. Most of us thrive on a routine that is regular and regimented. ...

Becoming Playful Parents

How Play Therapy Helps Children Navigate Emotions and Life Challenges 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 ...

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 to push past the boredom. So easy in fact, you might second ...

Finding Yourself-Part 3

The Beauty of Self Exploration 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 ...

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, ...