To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there. -Barbara Bush I recently finished the book, “The Secret of Happy Families” by Bruce Feiler and it got me thinking about healthy family systems. As a trained marriage and family therapist, I have a lot of education on healthy families, and insight […]

Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life. -Shannon L. Alder Life has definitely been hard lately with normal life stressors being exacerbated by the global pandemic. With heightened levels of anxiety, depression and grief (as well […]

When awareness is brought to an emotion, power is brought to your life. -Tara Meyer Robson As we’re gearing up to start in school learning here in Flower Mound, Texas, I can tell you that emotions are definitely running high around here! I recently finished the book, “Permission to Feel: Unlocking the Power of Emotions […]

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self. -Mary Sarton I recently finished the book, “Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World” by Vivek Murthy. This global pandemic has definitely left most of us with a new level of loneliness in our lives. I personally noticed […]

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. -Sophia Loren School just started here in Flower Mound, Texas and it sure has been chaotic! It’s all online right now (thankfully so since our COVID-19 numbers […]