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  • Again With the Holiday Family Stress Post

    Assertive Bill of Rights for the Holiday Season You Choose

    Between the weather and the impeachment hearings- it feels like it is going to be an especially long, brutal winter. Each November I share a version of my Assertiveness Bill of Rights for the Holidays as my gift to you and your family. Tis the season of hurt feelings, unreasonable expectations, trauma triggers and emotional eating.

    November 15, 2019
    Attachment, communication, Holidays, Relationship Advice

  • When All Else Fails… Remember to Breathe

    Lessons from the mat Sometimes I tell my clients that the only reason I work out is so that I can give them hell when they don’t. I am all about integrity. I have a favorite yoga class I try to get to on Monday mornings. It allows me to start my week from a great place both physically and emotionally. The work on my mat is so much like…

    December 15, 2017
    emotional intelligence, Holidays, Mindfullness

  • Assertive Bill of Rights for the Holiday Season You Choose

    I share some version of this every holiday season- for some reason holiday stress seems to be showing up early this year. Healthy attachment is at the core of my work. Attachment is how we want to raise our kids and how we want to be partnered and attachment is why the people we love make us freak out around the holidays. Nobody makes us crazy like the people we…

    November 9, 2017
    emotional intelligence, Holidays

  • Light as a feather…. you know how it goes

    Wait…is it already December 15th? I have a huge to do list from last weekend I never got to because life got complicated…once again. My Google calendar reminds me every December that I love the holidays and would enjoy them more if I started preparing sooner. Every year I commit to better time management. Every year my lovely husband who has actually known me longer than Google has…says “Yeah, you…

    December 16, 2016
    Holidays, stress

  • The New Calendar Starts Tomorrow!!!

    What a lovely day to reflect. Time to buy a new calendar for the family- mostly we all use Google but I hold onto one on the fridge for the visual impact. 2016 brings lots of predictable stuff… we live through winter and in March I will be done with my last baby being 11…my hardest parenting year with all of them. 12 sounds so good and then Joey turns…

    December 31, 2015
    Mindfullness

  • Bill of Assertive Rights for the Holidays

    Marriage Geek Bill of Assertive Rights for the Holidays You have the right to make your decisions about the holidays based on the values and needs of your immediate family first. You have the right to offer no reasons or excuses for your choices. You have the right to decide how responsible you want to be for your extended family’s holiday needs. You have the right to say no. You…

    December 8, 2015
    emotional intelligence

  • Post Thanksgiving Rundown

    My guess is that by now you’ve eaten (and perhaps drank) way too much. You’re not actually likely to be reading this on Thursday evening as you fell asleep doped up on tryptophane and my newsletter got lost in endless Black Friday ads. Just wanted to pop in and wish you the best. As we step into a the next holiday season take a moment to process any unresolved feelings…

    November 27, 2015
    emotional intelligence, Parenting