The holidays are upon us. While some of us embrace the opportunities for family, food, football and fun, others approach the holidays with increased stress and trepidation at the mere thought of being around extended family.  For many, family is fraught with difficulty.  Whether you have an aunt, who passively aggressively asks why you are still single, or the drunken uncle that can't seem to hold his liquor, the struggles are real in many families. As the saying goes  you ca

How often have you heard your internal voice screaming, " you idiot, what did you do that for?"  How many times do you experience having a big emotional reaction that surprised even you? And then your inner voice begins to berate you for having that big reaction.  That voice might sound something like, "why couldn't you keep your self under better control?" How often have you found yourself criticizing someone else who dared to have an opinion that was different from yours? 

As I write this,  today is my anniversary of jumping out of a perfectly good plane many years ago. I was a freshman at Bowling Green State University when I realized I was no longer bound by the rules of my family home, and jumping out of an airplane struck me as both fun and terrifying.  My roommate was completely not interested in joining me in this adventure and neither were any of my friends or floormates. So, I did it alone.  I jumped static line- more terrifying then ju

If we want the best life possible - we need the best brain. I spoke to an audience of women awhile back about selfcare. Many in the audience were mothers. We talked about the challenges of motherhood and how some challenges are made worse by the stories we tell ourselves. I asked these women how many of them tell themselves the story that they “don’t have time for selfcare.” Nearly every hand went up. Somehow many women received the message that to be a woman, wife or mother

We think it is safe to say that most of us have become addicted to our phones.  I see evidence of this everywhere. I have taken walks in a beautiful local park only to watch people walk by me glued to their phones instead of eyes gazing at the awe -inspiring scenery all around us here in Kitsap! I was reminded recently the fall out of parents who are unable to put down their phones when a teenage client shared with me recently that she recalls vividly as a young child just wa

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