Category Archives: DEVELOPING ROUTINES

When Your Greatest Strength Becomes Your Biggest Problem

As sandwich parents, we’re constantly juggling competing demands. Raising children requires us to lean heavily on our strengths just to get through each day. But what happens when the very qualities that helped us survive start working against us? The Superpower That Stops Working Most of us have that one thing we’re known for… ourContinueContinue reading “When Your Greatest Strength Becomes Your Biggest Problem”

Back to BASICS

What can we do as parents when the responsibilities of work and family add up be over 100% of your time, energy and headspace? What can we do as a family when everyone is breaking down and new problems crop up everyday, not to mention longer term problems we can already identify that will biteContinueContinue reading “Back to BASICS”

Schedules Serve Us, We Don’t Serve Our Schedule

Schedules are designed to support how we want to live our lives. Schedules are a tool for us to manage time. And time… well, it’s a nonrenewable resource. By that, I mean, we cannot create time that we have already spent. Time is not something we can get more of. It just keeps ticking away.ContinueContinue reading “Schedules Serve Us, We Don’t Serve Our Schedule”

Trauma-Informed Goals

Great ideas are just things that have already happened… in the future. You’ve already done it. It was/will be fantastic. You know it. It’s coming. We are now, in the present, just figuring out the ‘how’ and ‘enjoying’ the journey there. The uncertainty can either trigger us into a place of fear or motivate usContinueContinue reading “Trauma-Informed Goals”