Setting Boundaries Series: Journal Prompt 4

Boundaries give you direction about how you take care of yourself. Journal prompt 4: What do your current boundaries say about how you take care of yourself? - Day 5 Blog Index

Setting Boundaries Series: Journal Prompt 3

Setting boundaries will likely include something new; new feelings, new experiences, or new ways of doing things. - Journal prompt 3: What might you predict will be new for you? - Day 4 Blog Index

Setting Boundaries Series: Journal Prompt 2

The line between what you believe is ‘okay’ and ‘not okay’ is one way to think about boundaries. - Journal prompt 2: What is ‘not okay’ with you? - Day 3 Blog Index

Setting Boundaries Series: Journal Prompt 1

In the next 10 days I will take 10 principles of boundaries and provide a journal prompt for reflection. It can be difficult to know where to start with boundaries. I suggest looking inward at where the energy is. Which direction does your emotional energy go? Work? Relationships? Your kids? Your home? Let’s give space … Continue reading Setting Boundaries Series: Journal Prompt 1 →

Now Available: E-book On Boundaries & Alcohol

Now Available on Amazon Exhaustion in a relationship is a common theme when someone is struggling with an alcohol use disorder. In this book I will provide principles that can equip you to know how and when to set boundaries utilizing your values and needs while accounting for the capabilities of someone struggling with alcohol. … Continue reading Now Available: E-book On Boundaries & Alcohol →

For Moms, From a Mom, About a Mom

My mom died when I was 19 in a brutal fight with breast cancer. Sometimes it’s been so long since she’s been gone, it’s hard to remember what she was like. It seems memories are difficult to depend on as they fade into the years. What I do remember is she did birthdays and celebrations … Continue reading For Moms, From a Mom, About a Mom →

6 Things You Can Do Now When Someone You Love is Struggling with Alcohol

It may come as a surprise the steps don't include, "help person get into a treatment program" or "help person drink less". I imagine these are options you have already tried. I believe it to be more helpful to work through areas within your control.

An Essay on Fear

I’ll lock you up with protection, I’ll keep you confined to small margins of happiness.

Hope

In our current environment hope feels far away. Depression feels far more approachable and time appropriate. Yet, I chose to write about hope this month because it seems like something we need. Hope. A feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen. Hope seems to come from shifts in our every day … Continue reading Hope →

Stress Margin

Margin: The space between reasonable stress and unreasonable. I’m always curious about the real put together human that all of a sudden falls apart in public. Truly, there’s something sacred happening here. I have the urge to put out construction signs and say, “Caution Ahead, give this human some space, they are going to need … Continue reading Stress Margin →