Five Essentials to Help Your Kids Cope with Divorce.
I think everyone would agree that there is always a negative impact on our kids in the event of a divorce. They really are not getting what they want or what they need. However, it is naive to...
View ArticleThe Top 6 Barriers, Obstacles, or Roadblocks to Pursuing our Dreams
When we are young we have so many dreams and the words “practical”, “realistic”, or “difficult” never seem to be a part of the dream process. When we were young we didn’t think of limitations or...
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Pep Talk with Myself about Fear
I am involved in lots of stuff. Looking from the outside someone may say “She is always involved in something new. She isn’t afraid of anything.” They might say that, but, then they would be totally...
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When Fear Threatens to Cripple Us
Sometimes fear can paralyze us. You aren’t sure what to do or where to go. You are worried you aren’t pleasing God. And basically, you just feel sick. Sick to your stomach. Anxious. The kind of...
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When Bad Things Happen
When bad things happen, sometimes it is merely frustrating but other times it can be overwhelming, even paralyzing. It is impossible to go through life unscathed. We all experience bad things from...
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Saying Yes To Life In Spite Of Everything
“If you’re going through hell, don’t stop, keeping going!” When I first heard this, I laughed. Who would linger in hell? But then I thought of my own tendency –much as I hate to admit it—to nurse my...
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Drifting Through Life
Think about where you are today. I don’t mean just what building you are in or what errand you are running. I mean, why are you in the city, in the job, in the relationship, or at the particular...
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What Indecision Teaches Us About Ourselves
The other day, my friend handed me a gift. An unexpected gift in the form of a Magic 8 Ball. I giggled as I opened it and remembered all of the times I shook an 8 ball as a child and really believed...
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Social Media and the Carefully Crafted Image
I recently returned from a trip to Michigan. While I was there, I visited the charming little town of Holland for the Tulip Festival. We stopped by Windmill Island to experience what was essentially a...
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Thinking Yourself To A Better Place
Philippians 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things...
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The Story of Conquering Fear
I have written this story before. It has many settings and involves different characters, but the tale is the same. It is the one where the girl that supposedly loves God, trusts Him with everything,...
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Procrastination: A Pressure Cooker of Stress and Worry
I really need to find that last piece of information for my taxes. Every weekend, I have this exact thought pestering the back of my subconscious. There is no point in contacting the accountant...
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How to Stop Failure
This post was originally posted on our coaching website. Failing and fear of failure have been such a prevalent issue still of late that I was looking at past posts to send to clients. I read this...
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Arid Transition Seasons
Transition seasons are both uncomfortable and unavoidable. Some of you may be transitioning from college to adulthood to declaring “single” to “married” on your pesky tax forms to moving from married...
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WHY WE NEED TO PAY ATTENTION TO 13 REASONS WHY
The raw, powerful Netflix series, 13 Reasons Why, has generated a fair bit of discussion and controversy. Based on a novel with the same title, the series tells the story of a girl, Hannah, who leaves...
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Hiding Hurt, Healing Hurt
When you work in a professional corporate setting dominated by strong men, feelings are not openly shared. Actually, the socially accepted feelings of anger and frustration flow freely. Feelings of...
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Spiders and Booze: Facing the Truth
The truth can hurt. We don’t want to deal with things that feel scary and painful. People can be endlessly creative in finding ways to resist seeing what they don’t want to see. The problem is what we...
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Fear of Failure
We’ve all been there…facing down a challenge that we’re not sure we’re good enough to meet. For me, one of those moments came the year I learned to pilot a plane. While on one of my first solo flights...
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Freedom Over Fear
My parents have joked before that as a young child I was afraid of everything. Thunderstorms, dogs, even some of my family members, I was, as some would say, a scaredy cat. As the years went on and I...
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Procrastination: A Pressure Cooker of Stress and Worry
I really need to find that last piece of information for my taxes. Every weekend, I have this exact thought pestering the back of my subconscious. There is no point in contacting the accountant...
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