“Don’t forget to check on your strong friends!” We hear that statement quite often, but I have learned we need take…
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The Best “Worst” Advice on Helping Kids Learn to Help Themselves
This summer, I got the Best ‘Worst’ Advice for helping teens become more autonomous, meaning they learn to help themselves. Best…
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Returning the Cart and the Truth About Parenting with Long-Haul Hope
I recently got cleared by my podiatrist to take a fifteen-minute walk outside. That sentence does not adequately express the…
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Not Where You Want to Be, But Still Here
“I’m not where I want to be.” Those words seem to keep coming up,in my mindin conversations in the world as…
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The Complete Way to Unload Your Pain and Expand Healing
“Because it feels like we’ve been here foreverDon’t know how much farther or where we’re going toBut it’s our name…
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This Uncomfortable Advice Is Helping My Child Manage a Hard Time in Life
“You’re not scared when I’m not okayYou’re holding the spacesYou’re showing me what grace isThat I’m stronger because of the…
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