Tag: family
-
Week 5 (Final Week) – The Forgiveness Study
Chapter 13 – When Forgiveness Feels Final… But Isn’t This chapter reminds us that forgiveness isn’t a one-time moment between us and God—it’s an ongoing surrender. Just when we think we’ve released the hurt, something resurfaces. A memory. A reaction. A weight we thought we had already handed over. And in those moments, it can…
-
Week 3 – The Forgiveness Study
Chapter 7 – When Forgiveness Feels Unfair Again, another chapter in this book has me highlighting nearly every page. This one hits the tension we don’t always say out loud—forgiveness can feel wildly unfair. We’re asked to release something we didn’t cause, didn’t deserve, and maybe never even received an apology for. And if we’re…
-
Week 2 – The Forgiveness Study
Chapter 4 – When Your Mind Won’t Let It Go This is the chapter where we discuss replaying things over and over in our heads. This is also the chapter where I believe many people put down the book and determine they are not ready. When you go through so much hurt, it is only…
-
Parenting – The 90’s are calling.
While this week has provided a great deal of content for writing, I have struggled with a topic for the week. I have circled around from parenting teenagers, to blended family parenting, to advocating for yourself and your kids. It all comes back to the difficulty of parenting in today’s society. It is hard to…
-
The Blended Family Scheduler – An unpaid job.
As a spin off from my previous post about coparenting, let’s talk about blended family schedules. Let me share a glimpse of our reality because it can get messy, and exhausting. So you don’t get confused in an already naturally confusing situation, I will try my best to simplify. Wish me luck, lol! For the…
-
The Nitty Gritty Truth about Coparenting
Here we go! This topic alone is a sensitive one. Everywhere you turn on social media someone has something to say, whether you are the bio parent, the stepparent or both. Being a child of divorce, divorced, a mom, a stepmom, and a former paralegal in domestic relations for 10+ years, I have some advice…