With Mother’s Day right around the corner, I was thinking of the things to write in the homemade card I am sending to my mom. What do I appreciate about her? What do I think makes her a good mom? Even more importantly, what makes me a good mom? When my two children were young,…
DetailsAre you having difficulty maintaining positive thoughts, or staying motivated to continue working toward your goals? Many people have shared with me how the past year during the pandemic has taken a toll on them emotionally. Now, more than ever we need skills to boost our mental health so we can still trickle with joy…
DetailsWere you one of the twenty- one million Americans who tested positive for Covid-19? I got the news that I tested positive on Christmas eve. Merry Christmas! Although I continued to remain asymptomatic throughout the duration- like forty to fifty percent of the positive cases (1), many people have experienced mild to moderate symptoms, and…
DetailsAre you one of the many people struggling to stay positive and healthy with all the negative fallout from the Covid-19? You may be bombarded by negative news updates, or sense the fear on the masked faces when you accidentally get closer than 6 feet from someone. Social media posts are evidence of our disunity…
DetailsMy mother and father were both victims of childhood neglect and abuse growing up. Their unhealed maltreatment carried over to how they parented my siblings and me. My father would whip my mother, my siblings and me with his belt if we did not obey him. He would also yell, call us demeaning names, and…
DetailsA necessary component to developing healthy emotions and having meaningful relationships is to know that we are unconditionally loved. Many of us look to others to feel loved, because many of us believe other human beings will validate for us that we are loveable.
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