Thoughts and encouragement on divorce, remarriage, blended family, and what it really means to be a Christian.
There are two sketchy looking men wandering around the outside of my house right now. It's not as bad as it sounds. They are survey guys getting information for an updated real property report. But I wish they would go away! They pulled up in front of my house an hour ago. I, being the [...]
In which downward dog is no longer my friend. I haven't done yoga in a while, or much of anything for exercise. I seem to be rather immunocompromised. As far as my body is concerned, anything over a twenty minute brisk walk inevitably ends up with me holed up with some sort of unseemly virus. [...]
I’m continuing with my internal work with the website courses from bloomforwomen. I’m just finishing up the “emotional wabi-sabi” course. I really like the woman teaching the class because she seems rather artsy in how she dresses. A solid reason for sure. She also reminds me a lot of my psychologist in Calgary....so there’s a [...]
A follow up on the hockey game: We lost. Some random guy spilled beer on my jeans. Apologies were offered with slurred, but altruistic intentions. G had his utility tool confiscated and we had to go claim it at guest services after the game. Security was everywhere. We had to leave the premises immediately after [...]
A little known fact about me: If you wake me up at 5am, I am generally a nice person. This is really saying something because if you wake me up at 7am, you're likely to get your head bitten off. My children have learned through painful experience that you do not stand outside my bedroom [...]
How to help your partner when they're emotionally overwhelmed. “Triggers are external events or circumstances that may produce very uncomfortable emotional or psychiatric symptoms, such as anxiety, panic, discouragement, despair, or negative self-talk. Reacting to triggers is normal, but if we don't recognize them and respond to them appropriately, they may actually cause a downward [...]
Oh how the teeter-totter swings... This is a story about how I took my girls to their psychologist appointment and how I needed her more than they did. It started out as an average day. I was in relatively good spirits when I picked up the girls early from school and we started out on [...]
