Gratitude is the bridge that takes us from feeling bad to feeling the love.

You can NOT hate yourself better. Beating yourself up never leads to change. Only patience and love for yourself. Accept where you are before you can move on to where you want to be.

When we feel resentment, it is because we have a need that we are expecting someone else to meet, but they aren’t. Let’s learn how to meet our own needs to get rid of the resentment.

The space between expectation and reality is disappointment. How we can adjust our expectations to more peacefully match our realities.

All power struggles come from when what we want clashes with what our child wants. When we acknowledge our kid has his own agency, we can be more creative to get cooperation while keeping his autonomy in tact also.

Peace is an emotion that you can feel in your own body no matter what chaos is swarming all around you.

All moms think that the solution to everything is just to have more patience. But where does patience come from? How do we get more of it?

We and our kids both have agendas at all times and frequently those agendas clash, thus the power struggle. When we really acknowledge that the only control we have is over ourselves, we can drop the war.

You matter! You! You are a person too. You have a very important role to play in the lives of your kids but your life is still happening also and no one is going to take care of you the way you need except you!

We love our kids but how often do we actually feel that love in our hearts on a day to day basis? Are we more filled with irritation and frustration? How to feel the love when the kids are being kids.

I used to think that emotions just came out of nowhere and for sure they were someone else’s fault. He is driving me crazy. She hurt my feelings. nope! not true.