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I said before that Christmas is my favorite time of the year. My maternal side of the family always had huge celebrations for Christmas. There was always a Christmas play at church and other festivities with friends and loved ones. It always seemed like there was extra love, warmth, and friendship in the air at …
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Christmas has always been my favorite holiday and time of the year. Really, as soon as Fall comes in, I start to get tingly on the inside and begin anticipating the start of the Thanksgiving and Christmas Holiday Season. See, in my family we always had huge celebrations around the holiday and it just seemed …
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I hope you all experienced a fabulously blessed Thanksgiving Holiday with your family and friends. As I have celebrated Thanksgiving and spent this past week reflecting, family was on my mind quite a bit. I believe that family is important. It is my belief, that as humans, we are all created to be in relationship …
As we engage with family dinners, let's talk about having healthy relationships. As adults let's talk to our children about and model for them healthy relationships. I believe that we are all created to be in healthy relationships with one another. I believe that when we are in healthy relationships we thrive as individuals, we …
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This past week, I had something totally unexpected happen to me. My car was parked at an establishment I was visiting and a customer there backed into my car. The hood of my car was pretty badly damaged and it is not a good look for my car. The person that hit me was extremely …
As we are now nearing the end of September, most children have been back to school now for a month. As I have been working with children, youth, and adolescents at our practice at Loudoun Counseling and Coaching in Sterling, VA; a theme that has come out is children not knowing their parents' expectations for …
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Happy Sunday Sistas! As we are sitting around the dinner table enjoying Sunday dinner, I want to remind the ladies to start the conversation with their daughters about the importance of female friendships and sisterhood. Anytime I can talk about women coming together and bonding in sisterhood, I think I am fulfilling part of my …
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This edition of the Sunday Family Dinner blog is for the ladies. Ladies, grab your daughters for this conversation at the dinner table and talk to them about Sisterhood. This weekend I had the distinct honor and pleasure of speaking at the Beauty for Ashes Conference hosted at Scripture Cathedrals Ministries in Landover, MD where …
So, I know you're probably thinking it's not Sunday and that's the day that I usually write the Sunday Family Dinner blog. But, the idea behind the blog is to encourage everyone to go back to having family dinners where everyone sat at the table with no electronic devices and talk. I have been having …
As you know, Sunday Dinner is synonymous with the times where families would come together around the dinner table and talk about topics that were important to each member of the family. For the maternal side of my biological family, those discussions often happened over a big dinner on Sunday after church. With the Sunday …
