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4 Ways to Cope With Birth Trauma

Did one or more of your births not go the way you had hoped and planned? Perhaps, you experienced complications. Maybe you trusted the medical staff, but they created an unpleasant experience for you. There are so many variables involved in birth, which is why so many women end up with birth trauma. Birth trauma…

Coping With Anxiety During the Quarantine

Covid-19, aka, the Coronavirus, is affecting the entire world. Here in the United States, we are currently in the thick of it. Cities and states are figuring out what measures are needed, and we, the people, are trying to navigate this new normal right along with our governments. The term, quarantine, has become a very familiar…

New Year, New You: Boosting Your Self-Worth

It’s the beginning of a new year and with that, a new decade. January is the time for making resolutions. What are you wanting to change? What do you want to be different in your life? Resolutions usually involve self-improvement. Weight loss is the most common, but people make resolutions to be healthier in many…

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4 Ways to Cope With Your Mother-in-Law Telling You How to Parent

Maybe you’re a first time mama just learning the ropes of life with a newborn or maybe you’re a pro and just had your third child. Are you struggling to cope with a mother-in-law (MIL) that tells you how you should parent your baby? Maybe they have an opinion about how and what you feed…

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How to Cope with Anxiety During Bad Weather

No matter where you live, you likely have to live with the threat of some type of bad weather. In Florida, we have hurricane season around half the year. Predictions are always made as to how many and how severe the hurricanes will be in a given year. It’s mostly just a guessing game. Bad…

Is Therapy or Counseling Right For Me? (Guest Blog)

When I was in my twenties I wondered if therapy or counseling was right for me? I had gone a few times as a rebellious teenager and didn’t really feel I got anything from it to be honest. Mostly I felt judged for my “attention-seeking” promiscuity and being sexually active. I believed therapy and counseling…

When Your Dreams & Reality Don’t Mesh

I think for most of us, as little girls and teens, we dreamt of life as an adult. Where we would live, where we would travel, our job, our social life, our dream home, and on and on. We had dreams, big dreams. Then you become an adult, and what happens? You realize it’s hard,…

How to Set Good Boundaries

In this post, I’m going to focus on how to set good boundaries as part of self-care. This is the last post in my Wonder Woman series where I have been focusing on important issues relating to the modern (amazing) woman. Jane is working at her full-time job all day. Once she gets off, she…

Is Self-Care Selfish?

Part 3 of The Wonder Woman Series Your busy juggling all the things. Work, kids, cleaning, cooking, appointments, extracurricular activities, and on and on. As women, taking care of ourselves often falls to the bottom of our to-do list. It’s not until we reach a breaking point, do we ask for help or demand it…

How to Cope with Feeling Overwhelmed

Part 2 of The Wonder Woman SeriesDo you feel overwhelmed or stressed often? Do you find your mornings being hurried more often than not? Do you leave work only to rush to pick up your children to taxi them to their extracurricular activities? Do you work the majority of the day while also making sure…