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Twenty Parenting Tips, That Work!

Based on A Fine Time for Healing episode Parenting: Giving Your Children the Successful Edge in Life Blog Talk Radio 6/14/11 Parenting is far from easy; it takes consistency and tenacity. While raising children, we plant many seeds in them and … Continue reading

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Celebrating Life After Forty

In preparation for an inspiring interview last night with Anna Banks on her radio show “Living Fully After 40,” I reflected on the highlights of middle age.  I discovered, while mentally unearthing the positive side of aging, that there are many benefits to this … Continue reading

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Self Inflicted Guilt: Breaking the Cycle

  Why are so many of us able to offer kindness and compassion  to others, but not to ourselves?   One of the most damaging ways in which we tend to abuse ourselves is through feelings of guilt.  Often this tendency was  inflicted upon us in childhood–many of … Continue reading

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My Children Have Gotten Older But I Haven’t

 I’m not exactly sure how or when it happened, but my children are getting older and I’m not.  I keep looking at them and thinking, I’m definitely not old enough to have a child that age!   It’s quite a strange … Continue reading

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What I Know to be True on This Birthday 2010

Today is my birthday.  Since so many years have passed by while I wasn’t looking, I thought I’d take a moment to reflect back on what I learned and know to be true.  Here’s my list: I know that love … Continue reading

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Book Excerpt From: Fine…ly

Thinking back, I vividly recall watching with renewed fascination as Mom’s hairdresser teased and coifed her thick red tresses into a stiffly set “Beehive” hairdo each week at her standing Friday morning Beauty Shop appointment. Afterwards we’d pick up a freshly baked, twisted … Continue reading

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Reparent Your Inner Child

With the wisdom of an adult, we can be the loving parent or guardian we needed as a child.   Events from childhood, our first experiences, have the power to shape our lives. Some do so immediately, offering us challenges … Continue reading

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You Are the Creator of Your Own Life Story

  Daily OM When you remember that you are the author of your own life story, you are free to create a masterpiece. We all have our own life story. It is filled with relationships and events that help shape … Continue reading

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The One Thing Every Good Parent Wants by Dr. Robert Holden

“If I could wish for one thing in my life, it would be that my children grow up happy,” says Diane, a mother of two girls, ages 6 and 2. Diane is not alone. A research study conducted in 67 … Continue reading

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