How to Deal with Fear

How to Deal with Fear

  If you want to spend your life tied up in worrisome knots, just watch the news. It is chock-full of fear fodder. It’s a scary world filled with scary things. And yet we are also bombarded by messages that encourage us to override fear. Just do it, right? I can see...

When Dealing with Disappointment

Disappointments come in all sizes – from a single drop of rain on a silk blouse to catastrophic flooding. From, “Gee, that’s a bummer.” To, “I don’t know how we’ll recover.” Historically, I’ve dealt with disappointment by choosing denial – telling myself, ‘It’s...

When its Valentine’s Day and you have a broken heart

Valentine’s Day, shmalentine’s day. January is a month of new beginnings and my birthday month. March means spring break, a time to anticipate the buds and blossoms of new life. But sometimes February sucks. There were several years when I really hated February...

Hope for the Holidays Event in Austin

There have been too many holiday seasons when I wanted to skip December all together. I felt pressure to be happy and I just wasn’t feeling it. Have you been there? Are you dealing with transition, loss, betrayal, divorce, sadness, loneliness or strained...

What To Do When You Feel Empty

My car beeps at me when I only have enough gas to travel 50 miles. A little orange gas tank blinks on the dash. A message pops up on the display offering to search for the nearest gas station. The range I can travel with the fuel in the tank counts down to 30 miles...

Delight Your Marriage Podcast

I was honored to be a guest on the Delight Your Marriage Podcast earlier this year. Tune in to these two conversations with host Belah Rose and check out the Delight Your Marriage Podcast as a resource for information on sex in marriage. The Delight Your Marriage...

4 Truth Bombs from Wonder Woman

I grew up on Lynda Carter’s Wonder Woman in the 70’s.  She was smart and beautiful, kind and powerful. I was a fan. When I heard about the new movie coming out this summer, I got a little obsessed. I began to wonder about Wonder Woman. I discovered she was...

5 Ways to Cultivate Lifelong Friendship

Solomon was the wisest man on the earth and a deep thinker. Can I just say that I have to be in the mood for people like that? They can be a little exasperating. I’ll admit they have some really great things to say, in small measured doses. In his musings on the...

How to Launch the New Year

If you turn the calendar over into a new year with laissez faire, I think this blog will provide a gentle nudge that you’ll thank me for later. If you are the geeky goal setting type…hang in there and know that I have some cool links to share that could be right up...

Making it Look Easy: An Olympic Reflection

I don’t know about every other ordinary mom, but I always feel like a slacker during the Olympics. I reach for tissues when I hear stories about heroic mothers of Olympians and how they worked four jobs, stayed up all night cleaning offices and then slept in the...