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Toxic Relationships That We Love
Sure, I asked myself over a thousand times "why do I like being a part of these toxic relationships?" Now when I mention "relationships" I do not mean just romantic but friendships as well. Whew!...
Living A Simplified Life
So often we live a life that was created for us by our family. Or we live out family traditions. Within the past few years I have been embracing living my life my way! It truly took me moving to...
Becoming A Foster Parent
One of my 2018 goals were to complete our therapeutic foster parent training. Becoming a foster parent had always been just a thought. Chief and I would talk often about either adopting or...
Strategies For Communicating With Your Teen
Let's face it, having sex-related topics, including relationships, STDs and pregnancy with my tweens is always an uncomfortable topic for me. Ironic right, as my profession is indeed counseling to...
Separation and Reunification: Military Life
Learning to deal with a separation and reunification has been consistent over this past year. Because I am away from my normal support system of family and friends, it is definitely a different...
No Family or Friends, Just Us!
No family or friends, just us! In the past, my family and I would do what typical families do during the Thanksgiving holiday, visit family and friends, eat a massive amount of food, Black Friday...
From Prison to Purpose
Are you in prison? Have you recently been released? Since being released, what are you doing to live a purposeful life? If any of those scenarios apply to you, or even someone you know or love,...
Surrounded By Love and Grace
“Are you okay? Is anything wrong? You seem different.” These are the phrases I repeatedly heard my senior year of high school. My parents were highly concerned about me and it wasn’t for another...
My Experience with Medication
I have been married to my husband for 12 years and together for 17. We have two daughters ages 8 and 11. He is a Chief in the Navy and is months away from retirement.
In 2006 when I was pregnant with my first daughter, I began having extreme highs and lows and was quite unstable throughout the later part of my pregnancy. I had shown signs of all this prior but didn’t acknowledge I had any issues. My spouse was also preparing for his IA to Iraq.
Overcoming My Own Anxiety
The psychological and verbal abuse was evident to everyone else but me.
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