Emotional blackmailing…whew sounds ominous! Right? And I’m the first to admit that I participate in this dynamic in my relationships #cringe. It’s what I do when I’m not setting healthy boundaries about how I treat myself- like we talked about in the last blog. If...
It is part of the human condition that children need connection, both physically and emotionally, with their caregiver. As a babe- your life depended on it. Love was the greatest commodity. If you couldn’t connect as yourself- at some point you most likely developed...
I was in the middle of the kid’s leggings section of Target with my girls the other day – a feelings rich place for all of us. I knew we weren’t the only ones- I related to another mama who had the same agenda as me, get in there, get the things we...
When my daughter started behaving in ways I didn’t think she should I was flummoxed. I thought inside “I’m treating her well and meeting all her needs on-demand so what am I doing wrong?” She was acting defiant and expressing a lot of rage and this wasn’t part of my...
Happy New Year! We made it through 2021. Phew! Who would have thought we’d be where we are after 2 years. My, my….sending so much love and support to you for riding the waves of parenting during this challenging time. As a teenager, my daughter expressed her BIG...
In conscious parenting, the message we often hear is “connect, connect, connect”. And yet, rarely do we hear about the importance of “healthy separation” in our relationships with our children. Believing that “separation” is unhealthy leads to the engulfment of the...
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