Could Connecting Be This Simple? I coach a lot of families with teenagers. For many, they find me because they are having trouble connecting...truly connecting and feeling like they “know” each other. LIfe is moving fast, and is typically relegated to dealing with...

Is “fixing” getting in the way of listening? One afternoon, when my daughter was in 6th grade, she arrived home from school and immediately launched into a detailed and heated recounting of something that happened with a few girls at school. She was hurt. She found...

Because of this pandemic, I feel like I am having to have more hard conversations with my teens than ever before. We are in one another’s space all of the time, there is no easy way to “take a break” from one another, remote school is energy sucking and for right...

During my divorce, my anxiety level was at an all time high. It wasn’t until I talked with my doctor that I realized my symptoms were the result of anxiety, triggered by extreme stress! This stress was also triggering anxiety in my kids, however, because of my own...

Have you noticed you tend to look for what is wrong, what is not working or what needs fixing? How often do you acknowledge what is working, what you are enjoying, what you like, what someone has done well...without bringing any attention to the opposite? We are...