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I have struggled to write this post for several weeks and even now it's difficult for me to formulate exactly what I want to say. Myself, just like the rest of the world is dealing with the crisis of this pandemic. We are all feeling various emotions from anxiety, to fear, to frustration, to uncertainty, …

Continue reading "Sunday Family Dinner – Shift Your Focus"

In February of 2017, I published podcast episodes on The Month of Love. In these episodes, I talked about how to love yourself, how to love others, and practical tips on how to get more love in your life. As we are now 6 days into February and what some call the month of Love, …

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So for those of you that know me and know me really well, you know that I love to watch movies. I am a big movie buff and often times I find myself uncovering the hidden messages or lessons in some movies. Today, I found myself watching The Free State of Jones. In full disclosure, …

Continue reading "Special Edition – Are We Really Free?"

As we are in the last Sunday of 2019 and are on the cusp of a new year, as you gather around the Sunday dinner table today, have a conversation about how you are preparing to enter 2020. I decided that to prepare for 2020, I was going to purge any old things. That includes …

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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 …

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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 …

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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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