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Strategies to Help
Do you ever find yourself in a time pressure and you catch yourself making mistakes such as sending out a “reply all” message instead of just replying to the person? Once you do it though, you realize that you are going to face negative feedback for your mistake and for the information that you revealed? Do you know the panic and dread that can come from this? Do you feel that your behavior hurts you when you are stressed? All of us have been in a situation where we wish we could do it over. We look at the things we did wrong and we realize that if we could…
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Learning to Care About Yourself with Decluttering
Getting rid of messes in your life can help you to improve your state of mind and to have less stress. When you put things in their right place and you increase your self-care, you can change how your mind works and improve how you feel. You are living in a time where everything is very busy, and this can cause you to have bad habits that can lead to stress and anxiety. Having a big mess in your house or a lot of clutter can cause you to be stressed out and cause you to not be able to function at your best. Putting things away around your house…
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Navigating Being a Queer Parent
There are many difficulties that come with being a single parent. One must always be on parent duty without partner to occasionally handle off responsibilities. There is only one income stream for the family. There is no partner to share the joys and woes of raising a child. These difficulties can be even more magnified when this parent is LGBTQ. Being a single parent can forever change the dating scene. But when you are queer it can be difficult to navigate the broader single parent community. You may find yourself spending more time with heterosexual individuals since there are limited queer prospects. This can lead to endless coming out experiences…
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What Daughters Learn from Strong Mothers
Mothers play a huge role in the lives of their children and they teach them things that are imperative to their journey. Here are some things strong mothers teach their daughters: Fall but Get Up Everyone will fall and will make bad decisions. Even if you fall apart and things do not work the way that you want them to, get up. Life is not about how hard you fall but how strong you stand up. Disappointing You will find people in your life that will take advantage of you. You will be in toxic relationships when you think that you have great partners and friends. These people will show…
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Seven Tips To Help You Learn to Love Yourself
Loving yourself means you accept yourself as you are, and reconcile yourself with the elements of yourself that you can’t change. This involves self-respect, a positive self-image, and unconditional self-acceptance. We live in a culture that’s obsessed with beauty. We’re conditioned to idolize beautiful people—actors, models, and athletes with perfect teeth, trim waists, and six-pack abs. Therefore, we subconsciously equate happiness and success with attractiveness. But to genuinely love yourself, you can’t let your looks define your value. Your appearance can’t be your sole method for obtaining relationships, sex, or love. It can’t dictate your worth, joy, or family status. It shouldn’t gain you a professional promotion. Look at it…
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How to Become an Instant Winner Today
It is a common adage that history is written by the winners. The goal to win is a central tenant of society and our daily life. People who are viewed as a winner enjoys ample praise and accolades, such as greater opportunities for success and partnership, as well as improved self-esteem. This only serves to reinforce a desire to “win” more. We have compiled ten key strategies to help you become a winner starting today! Set goals In order to be successful, you must set targets and benchmarks you wish to achieve. This gives you direction and allows you to focus your resources which can help you build confidence and…
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Being a Better Parent After Divorce
Even though they say that children can heal after going through a divorce, the truth is, this can leave children with permanent scars. After years of marriage, you might feel guilty when your relationship with your spouse is not working out. Even though your kids will be able to heal after this, there is still a lot of grief that comes when parents split. Perfection Co-parenting can work well but it doesn’t heal any of the holes that divorces leave. Schedules might become harder and weekend stays can be confusing. It can cause your children to have to spend their birthdays and holidays with only one parent and it can…
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Reasons You are More than Just a Mom
One of the best feelings in the world is being a mom and this can make you feel happy to be a woman. You get the opportunity to raise your children and to teach them to do what is right and to be good people. You will show your children support, care, love, affection, and you will love them with unconditional love and understanding. When you are a mother, you are your child’s friends and you will love to have this friend that will last for all eternity with you. You and your child will be able to talk about anything for as long as you are alive. Some mothers…
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Moving On
Have you lived a life of ups and downs and realized that life with your ex was over, that he or she had moved on, but you have not yet to do so? Whatever kind of relationship you have had in your life, you need to tell the story again. You may have something that is sad or is traumatic for you where you have been left and felt like the victim where your ex is the one that broke your heart. Maybe they didn’t even want to give the relationship a real chance. Change the story so you become the one in power. Maybe you both tried your best…
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Dating and Children
want to date you with all of your kids. The truth is, there are plenty of people out there that would love to date a single mother. Do not instantly think that just because you have children that you are no longer desirable. There are many people who love children and want to date someone that has children. There are also other parents that are single that would like to be with someone else that is a single parent. There are plenty of people that have no children and would like to start a readymade family. Even when you fit the idea of a single mom or dad, the important…