It is a profound threshold that we step through when we begin caring for our parents. The role shift can be isolating, and it doesn’t have to be. It is a sacred time as well as a time to allow others to care for you as you care for them.

Has 2025 felt like a decade? If not, great! If so, have hope. Here are ideas for maintaining hope during the holidays and throughout 2026.

Discovering your values along with steering your child to discover theirs creates clarity. Here is the how and the why.

We are pattern-seeking beings, and that gift provides us with a way to process all the information coming our way and with safety. It also affords us an avenue for shifting how we interact and communicate!

When you receive pushback from your child - or they protest - do you begin to think you may be making a mistake or that a limit that you set may be wrong? Think again, especially in regards to screen use!

Understanding their nervous system can benefit your child is many ways including staying safe. You are their model, so your understanding of your own system can benefit them, too!

As children develop, there is a shift in the responsibility balance. They begin to take on more responsibilities. How do you know when to shift the responsibility? How is that done? Read on!

The feeling of anger is often misunderstood and sometimes even feared. Learn more about this powerful feeling that can motivate and protect if fully felt and get us into trouble if not!

Sadness is often labeled as a “negative” feeling. It may be uncomfortable, and it is not negative, wrong, or bad. There is much to gain from learning to actually feel sad. Here are ways to assist you and your children in understanding sadness and feeling sad.

We live in a fight culture, and the words that we use matter. We can help shift the culture by becoming attuned to our choice of words!

There are events in life that shake a young person’s world, disrupting their identity, leaving them feeling adrift and alone, and crushing their trust in those who were supposed to be caring for them.  Here are two stories about how the decisions of adults, the cultural buy-in of “tough love”, and the flourishing of the Troubled Teen Industry (TTI) did just that.

Summer may be drawing to a close, and there is still time to knock the final days of my favorite season right out of the park! Read on for more…

To take in the good is a practice that can last only seconds but can make a world of difference to you physiologically. It improves your well being!

Are you feeling the warning tremors of the back-to-school quake?  You are not alone! Please read on for tips for smoothing out the summer to school shake up!

Summer can be a time of rejuvenation for your family. Here are three ways to elevate your summer so that it is fun, connecting, and refreshing!

Your child recently stepped out of the doorway of their classroom for the last time this school year.  The next day when they woke up, things were totally different.   The transition from school to summer is real, and it is a big deal! Read on for more….

Here is the key to finding a beautiful way to honor the mothers in your life on Mother’s Day!

In your efforts to communicate something important, do way too many words interfere in the actual connection? Read on to see the benefits of keeping communication simple.

Has busyness hijacked your life? Consider doing less and nourishing more!

We are living in a bully culture where there is broad acceptance of the bully mentality.  This acceptance, coupled with a gross lack of accountability, has created an environment that threatens our safety, throwing us into daily tailspins. Read on for more…