Planning for Drama-free Holidays as a Single Parent
Divorce is a bitch. And divorce-mas (the Christmas time when you're a single parent) is one of the times people experience the most sadness and stress. Here's the plan.
Health and fitness begin in your mind. Can you eat better? Can you exercise 3 – 5 times a week? Can you give your own body the love you’d like to shower on a partner? Health is your number one commodity as you get older. Stay healthy by taking little steps towards a better, stronger, you.
- Emotional Variability: Healthier Living Through Mindful Awareness
- Patience, Mindfulness, and the Slow Road to a Healthy Relationship
- 5 Health Factors to Prevent or Lessen Seasonal Depression: Get Support
- Facing Health Issues Alone; Sometimes You Just Want Someone to Hold Your Hand
- Loving the Body: Size, Weight, Color, Age, Fitness, Happiness
- Self-Care and Fitness: How You Treat Yourself Says More than You Think
- ME Cycles and Wondermints: Why Is Self-Care So Difficult?
- Rebuilding Myself Into the Person I Was Before We Married
Fitness and health are the currency of growing old. Let’s do it with intention. Don’t hope to catch up later, get on a health kick, eat better, sleep better, love better. Your fitness and health are the most important things in your life. (Maybe after mental health, in my case.)
Giving Your Co-parent a Break: Think About the Kids, Not About Your Ex
Hitting delete instead of send can make all the difference. I had another one of those moments this morning. An email from the mother of my children saying some passive-aggressive things…
Dear Daughter, We’ll Catch Up on Thursday
You see, I notice when you are gone. Not to be creepy or anything, but I notice you are not here every day. And I can tell sometimes, when we are together, that you too are longing for more time. So let's make the most of what we do have.
A Simple 6-Step Relationship Strategy: From Dating to a Relationship
Spend time together. Keep checking in with each other and with yourself. "How does it feel?" Let the answer to that question guide your relationship decisions. And remember, kissing can lead to lovemaking, if you both want to head in that direction.
The Song at the End of My Marriage – Radiohead’s “All I Need”
Here's a rough Radiohead cover song of All I Need.
Unlocking Touch – The Love Language I Speak
From the joy comes an additive feature that I am looking to attract into my life. I am a meta-happy person. I can see the good in awful times and will work towards and keep striving towards solutions, knowing that my joyful optimism will prevail. But that is not always the case. So I hope to find another person who is also additive with their energy and happiness. AND they share the love language of touch.
Holding Your Dream Together As Your Marriage Comes Apart
She asked me not to write about her or the kids, ever. But, I'm sorry, that's the only way I can talk about what's going on for me at this amazing juncture in my life.
There’s Something Missing: On Moods and Chemicals in my Brain
The moods roll in and out as if on tides. There is no controlling the bio-rhythm of our energy overall, it's really just how we respond to the varying levels of energy. And over the past several months a low-energy day was just passing through. Yesterday, the low-energy had the feeling of maybe sticking around for a bit. That got me a bit worried.