How skilled are you in relating to others? Relationship drama affects every area of our lives at different points. Our skills and coping mechanisms can both help us or make things worse for us. Do you know how to tell the difference? Do you know how to make them all benefit you? More often than...

When was the last time you panicked?

Panic can range from the instant shock of a misplaced phone or keys all the way to the panic at hearing a loved one may have a terminal illness or the panic of a near accident. This is a wide range for one emotion. 

Panic serves a valuable purpose in our...

Just because you’re married and it’s Valentine’s day, this doesn’t mean you will always be giddy and celebrating your love on the 14th of February. What if it is an UNHAPPY Valentine’s Day this year?

This is, after-all, the nature of relationships. They have...

Relationships are tough. Everyone knows this. We expect it to be hard and then when it is difficult we can’t seem to think of anything else or even see past all the hurt. The crazy thing about the strongest love is that it also brings the possibility of the most painful hurt right along...

“If I hear ‘New Year, New Me’ one more time…..”,  Have you heard this as often as I have this year? Why are we tired of this phrase?

‘New year, new me’ represents a fresh start. It is great to occasionally put the past aside and start with a...

New Year, New Mindset!

What is the one thing that you want most for yourself in 2021? 

Better question?... What was standing in your way from getting that one thing in 2020?

Raise your hand if you can answer YES to any of the following statements:

• I am...

Worry works like our body’s warning system. It hyper focuses our attention on one or a few of the worst possible outcomes. Anxiety occurs when we get stuck in that vantage point and can’t seem to see anything else.

When it comes to a health pandemic as enormous and global as...

“Since when did you want to be an author, Renee?”, my mother asked me last week. Even my own mother didn’t know I was intending to write this book.

You know those bad days that pop up from time to time? The ones that seem to come out of nowhere and last from a few hours...

Are your outcomes intentionally created? Or are you more often reacting to things as they happen to you?

People are each so very different. In the same family, we have different standards of clean, different tolerances of pain, and too many others to count.

So how can we live peacefully together...