by Nancy | May 28, 2024 | Uncategorized
Why Step-Parents Have a Bad Rap! The fairy tales featuring a wicked step-mother or a mean step-father are based somewhat on truth. A birth parent has a rosy glow surrounding their perception of their child. That rosy glow makes it easy to forgive irritations or excuse...
by Nancy | May 21, 2024 | Uncategorized
I don’t like to wait. I suspect that most of us have trouble being patient when waiting. Maybe it was easier 100 years ago when a message could take a year to reach you across the country. And bread would take time to rise. Or waiting for rain for the crops took...
by Nancy | May 14, 2024 | Uncategorized
Forgiveness is at Times Necessary in Any Relationship! Even the most loving of relationships have conflicts or mis-steps or even deliberate cruelties that call for forgiveness. Sometimes you forgive and move on without maintaining that abusive relationship. Most of...
by Nancy | May 7, 2024 | Commitment, Encouragement, Uncategorized
Everything Begins With an Intention The definition of intention is: a thing intended; an aim or plan. Every outcome begins with an intention. You intend to complete a task today. You either complete it or it is completed on another day, but it begins with the...
by Nancy | Apr 30, 2024 | Uncategorized
The need to be heard and understood is such a deep need in all of us. After food, water, and shelter, I believe it is our most dominant emotional need. That’s why it’s so hard to set that need aside, even temporarily, in order to listen for the purpose of...
by Nancy | Apr 16, 2024 | Uncategorized
Years ago a friend of mine began an affair with a co-worker. In the beginning, it was so exciting that they both divorced their former spouses and married each other. I don’t know the other woman or her family, but I know that the amount of pain suffered by his...
