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Freeing Myself from Manipulation – First, I Have to Know I’m Being Manipulated

February 17, 2023

Ok, if we’re going to talk about screaming and yelling on Valentine’s Day like we did last week, then we also need to talk about that other more manipulative [...]

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Valentine’s Day is Coming – Let’s Talk About Fighting

February 10, 2023

Many people–you know who you are–grew up in homes where there was fighting, yelling, name calling, tears, the silent treatment. Others grew up in homes where disagreements looked more [...]

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Hitting the Reset Button on Love

February 3, 2023

Family & Friends: Making Healthy Connections

The other day, I was thinking about how hard it is to continue to be loving to someone who is dangling by the last thread of my patience. It [...]

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My Twelve Steps of Parenting – Things I’ve Learned in the Last Eighteen Years

May 13, 2022

As I wind down to my last few blog posts, I’d like to share this list that’s been kicking around in my ‘drafts pile’ for a while. This list [...]

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Do I Protect the Offender or the Offended? Standing Up for What I Believe In

April 29, 2022

TeamConfessioners know how I talk a big game when it comes to keeping my mouth shut and staying out of other people’s business. But, you also know I’ve been [...]

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Editing the Family Manual – Cut and Pasted from Generation to Generation

April 22, 2022

The year was 1995. I was walking behind a father and his daughter in the garment district in New York City. I watched as the father handed his child [...]

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What’s That Stench? The Smell of Denial

April 15, 2022

Someone enters the room and says, “What’s that smell?” I look up and ask, “What smell? I don’t smell anything.” Ex-act-ly. Very few issues in my life show up [...]

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Where Are You Picking Up the Idea That Something’s Wrong with You?

March 18, 2022

Someone asked me this week, “Where are you picking up ideas that something’s wrong with you?” Here’s an example from our family that I think perfectly illustrates how I [...]

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Emotional Greed – When Someone is Never Enough

March 11, 2022

The notion of ‘emotional greediness’ was recently introduced to me. I had never heard the term but I love the idea of attaching the word greed to needing more [...]

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My Way or The Highway – Forcing My Will on The Family

March 4, 2022

This week I was reminded of how much our family life has changed since I stopped expecting our lives to revolve around what works best for me. For many [...]

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Combatting Envy – My Motivation to Stop People from Taking Away Our Joy

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Ubuntu, I Am Because We Are – The African Philosophy that Can Set Me Free

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A Tiger In A Cage – Breaking Free From Obsessive Thinking

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Acting Like a Child – Pretending Myself Into the Person I Want to Be

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The Cycles of Life – Ride ‘Em, Don’t Fight ‘Em

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