Relationship plan

Relationship plan

Our lives stay on the same path unless we change them. My life has changed drastically. When I first arrived in WNC. I was married. We created a coffee shop and community together. And I started a women’s group. The divorce changed everything. For me, all the goals we...
Boundaries

Boundaries

Setting boundaries is telling people how you want to be treated. If you don’t tell them how will they know? We tend to think they are a negative thing. We don’t have to look at them this way. We can look at them like they are our guidelines for ourselves and others....
Our Stories

Our Stories

Our stories are what define our lives. We decide the stories we tell. The question is: Are these the stories we want defining us? Stories are subjective. We all see things differently because of our experiences and backgrounds. Think about that game, telephone, we...
File of Fabulousness

File of Fabulousness

A file of fabulousness is the perfect thing for those days you don’t feel it. My Mother is a narcissist. It has been hard for me to think I am great. I don’t want to be anything like a narcissist. I had work to get past this thought. We all need to love ourselves. I...
Boundaries

Upper limits

A healthy directive I try to live by is: Feel all of your feelings. Feeling sad or aggravated are hard. We understand how staying with that feeling is difficult but necessary. Staying with the feeling reveals more about that feeling. I have worked through many issues...
Gain from your pain

Gain from your pain

We learn about life and ourselves through our experiences. In childhood we have little control over those experiences but they are where we learn our values. Many of my biggest lessons have come from my childhood experiences. Our life is formed by our experiences. As...