Tag Archives: Family

Don’t Get Scrooged This Holiday

Could you imagine throwing a holiday dinner party and not preparing for it? I mean, just imagine: It’s December 24th. There’s a knock on the door. Your family arrives all dressed up for a party and you are lying on the sofa watching a rerun of “Grey’s Anatomy,” in your sweats. (Not even your good […]

Top 5 Life Skills to Teach Your Kids

Your kids. They’ve got school to teach them their educational requirements. They’ve got friends to teach them how to be social and have fun. They’ve got their extracurricular activities to teach them movement and play. They’ve got dozens of other messages distracting them at any moment of the day. AND, they have you, their parents, […]

Laws (not) to Live By

Never go to bed angry. That is one of my Personal Laws, or, actually, it used to be one. Sounds like a good law, right? I don’t think many people would argue with me about it. Although, when it came down to it, it wasn’t really right for me. Why? I’ll get to that soon, […]

Have It All: Double Dare You.

For as long as I could remember, I never believed I could have it all. I really believed that anyone who said they could have it “all,” you know, a happy husband, kids, AND a big career, was either a liar, a faker or a skipper of sleep. And, since I was never going to […]

How to Give a Crap About Homework

It’s that time again – either you or your kids are back at school, and that means dealing with homework. Or maybe your version of homework is that project at work you’ve been blowing off, or that long list of chores and home repairs that has been gathering dust in the back of your mind. […]

Her Powerful Goodbye to Dad

Death might seem like an inappropriate subject to bring up on Father’s Day, but I’m going to talk about it, because it feels timely and important. Since it is a sensitive topic, I’m giving you a heads up. If your dad has already passed away, chances are you weren’t ready for it. You didn’t know […]

What Happens When You Rewrite History?

“History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it” – Winston Churchill Everyone has their own personal history: the collection of stories we were told about times we were too young to remember, along with stories we experienced ourselves, spun together by our own interpretation in the present moment. Our history holds […]

What Stinks About Mommy?

Everybody has a few pesky personality traits, whether they know them or not. Bossy, short-tempered, melancholic, fake-nice, judgmental … these traits don’t just hide in a box under your bed. They follow you everywhere you go, at work and at home, tripping you up along the way until you deal with them and shut them […]

Love Over Laundry

The first duty of love is to listen – Paul Tillich My wife’s father died recently and naturally things have been sad around our household. So the other day when I was putting a few towels into the linen closet, I was not entirely surprised to hear soft sobs coming from our bedroom. What happened […]

Crowd out Bad Family Dynamics

A client recently asked what to do when people around her were gossiping, now that she has declared a new rule for herself that she would not participate in gossip. Awkward.  I told her to use the “crowd out” method. I first learned about the crowd out method in one of Patricia Moreno’s fitness classes. […]