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11 Blogs and Websites Every Professional Mom Should Follow
Inspiration is all around you. Whether if it’s parenting advice from your mother, relationship tips from a friend, or career hacks from a mentor or colleague. But inspiration can also come from someone who’ve never even met before — such as an author, podcaster, or a blogger. Today I want to share with you 11 amazing blogs where I’ve been able to find inspiration and guidance as a mother and professional. 1. Pregnant Chicken Amy Morrison launched this parenting blog in 2010 and it’s definitely one of the more entertaining and helpful sites available for mothers. That’s because the site puts a humorous and lighthearted spin on the unpleasant side of…
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5 Strategies to Avoid a Mental Breakdown
A “Mental Breakdown” can happen in many forms and range in severity. Some people find themselves so distraught and emotionally destroyed they are hospitalized. But for MANY of us mental breakdowns do not result in being hospitalized but do feel like we just cannot take it anymore. These kinds of mental breakdowns show up in a variety of ways. Maybe it’s the person screaming and flipping off another driver. Maybe it’s the woman who just starts crying uncontrollably at work. Maybe it’s when you slap your child when they’re being difficult which you never thought you would every do. Today’s discussion are research based and clinically proven strategies to avoid…
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50 Inspiring Quotes for Strong, Hard-working Moms
When you think of a strong woman who do think of? Hopefully, the first woman is your mom. I never truly realized this until the birth of my first child. Today, I realize that being “mom” is a non-stop job that is both exhausting and exhilarating. While I wouldn’t change being a mom for anything in the world, there are those challenging days when you’re dissatisfied, stressed, and over-worked. I snap out of this by focusing on the positive and exercising. But, sometimes I need some outside inspiration, like the following 50 quotes. 1. “Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.” – Lisa Alther 2.…
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The Psychology Behind Your Personal Best!
We all want to discover and reach our own personal best. This can be your personal best in any thing that you do. From pickle-ball to sales at work. We all have the things we are the best at doing. The key is tapping into those skills you already possess that can help you find your personal best. To begin please contemplate the following quote from Henry Ford: “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you are right either way.” This is one of my favorite quotes as it captures the power of our thoughts. Our mindset is one of the very key components to our success. When…
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Good News for the Dissatisfied, Stressed, and Over-Worked Mom
Today’s discussion is to offer hope for all of the stressed out, over worked, and dissatisfied mom’s of the world. As a mom things pile up. We are responsible for ourselves, our spouses, our children, our homes, our pets, our jobs, our laundry, our yards, and the list goes on and on. This can feel overwhelming and insurmountable on most days of the week. But today I am going to offer you another option. The option is not to escape your reality, although at times that is necessary, but to change our perspective of our situations. First, please note our perception is our reality. Second, we are in complete control…
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3 Steps to Talking to Your Kids about School Shootings
Being a parent can be the scariest thing. But something even scarier is when your child’s life is threatened. When tragic events occur like school shootings its hard to make sense of how people could act in such an extreme and hateful manner. This topic is even hard for adults to comprehend and brings up many negative emotions like fear, anxiety, depression, and sadness. Imagine how our children must feel! Today’s blog is about how to talk to your kids about deadly shootings. Step 1. Actually Talk to your kids about the shooting. Many parents might need to sort through their own emotional content first, but it is definitely helpful…
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3 Ways to Experience True Love in Your Marriage <3
I treat many couples in therapy. And they often do not show up for counseling until things are really bad within their relationship and sometimes IT IS REALLY BAD! But today I am going to offer tips tips to fuel your true love and daily practical ways to help your relationship. 1. Make NO Assumptions! This happens ALL the time within relationships. People assume they know what their partner thinks, makes conclusions based on body language, and reads into their motives without all the facts. Because we have spent so much time with our partners we assume we know what makes them tick. But people are subject to change all…
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Celebrating Your Relationship Through Traditions
This Sunday is Mother’s Day which immediately makes my heart warm. Not only because I myself have an incredible mom but I am given the opportunity to celebrate my relationship with my children. But it’t not just Mother’s Day. It has evolved into so much more than that because of our annual tradition. You see years ago without intention, we started a tradition and it has been our favorite thing to do together on Mother’s Day ever since. Every year I take my kids to Rehoboth Beach, walk the boardwalk, play in the sand, and most importantly eat crepes on Penny Lane. Mother’s Day is the only time of year…
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Being at the Bottom of Your Own To-Do List
How many times a day do you feel like you just do not have enough time!?!? For me this happens regularly. In fact, the strength of almost every woman I meet is putting other people before themselves. This is truly one of our finest attributes. However our greatest strengths are often our weaknesses. Sort of like, too much of a good thing. Today I am going to give you techniques to get yourself on your To-Do List. Tip #1 Schedule your “me time” within the work week. If I want to schedule time away from work I schedule that within my work week — just as if it were any…
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Why The Gym Is Your #1 Tool
Today we have a guest from my amazing friend Jennifer Kaufmann, a personal trainer at RISE Fitness + Adventure. Take it away Jen! Let me start out with this – I LOVE THE CONCEPT OF WOMEN SUPPORTING WOMEN! Especially moms, the jack of all trades, who seem to wear more hat’s in a days time than is actually possible. Yet we manage to do it anyway, day in and day out. Almost feels like Groundhog Day every day….. right? OK, I’m going to go ahead and talk about something we moms tend to put last on our list – our own self care. What is self-care? It’s simply dedicating time to yourself…
