Summer Rewind #5 – Control the Stuff Rather Than the People

July 19, 2024

Team, this is one of my most downloaded podcasts. And like Ralphy and Randy’s Christmas Story after Thanksgiving, this episode feels just like a summer tradition at this point. [...]

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Summer Rewind #3 – If I Always Show Up for You…

July 5, 2024

This Summer Rewind, back to June 14th of 2019, is short but noteworthy. This post is such a great reminder for me during these summer months when lots of offers [...]

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Summer Rerun #5 – Getting Back to Reality After Vacation

July 21, 2023

Hey TeamC, I am so happy to be sharing this “oldie but goody” with you today. I had lived over 40 years of my life before learning the lesson that [...]

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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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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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Trying to Prove Myself – Where it Gets Me and What I Can Do About It

September 24, 2021

Martyrdom: Prioritizing Self-Care

The big discovery I’ve made during my time off this summer is in regard to the amount of time and energy I spend trying to prove myself to those [...]

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Tantrums – Let’s Not Make This About You, Let’s Make This About Me

January 29, 2021

When one of the rug-rats is having a tantrum I can get triggered. Why? Because deep down inside me, I still sometimes feel responsible for their happiness. Intellectually, I [...]

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How I Stopped Blaming Myself for Quitting – It’s Not Me, It’s You

January 8, 2021

Perfectionism: Maintaining Personal Serenity

There have been so many times when I’ve been hard on myself for “not sticking with something.” Whether it was a new church, method of organizing, eating plan, health [...]

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Christmassing in a Pandemic – It’s Time to Re-evaluate the To-Do List

December 4, 2020

It occurred to me on about Tuesday of this week, as Christmas stress began to creep in, that I was in the process of trying to deliver the exact [...]

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Going to Extremes – Finding a Corona Balance

October 23, 2020

If you’re on TeamConfessions, you know MamaDe has issues with technology. The thought of kids being in front of screens all day can put me on an Acela train [...]

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Summer Rewind #5 – Control the Stuff Rather Than the People

Summer Rewind #3 – If I Always Show Up for You…

Summer Rerun #5 – Getting Back to Reality After Vacation

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

Emotional Greed – When Someone is Never Enough

Trying to Prove Myself – Where it Gets Me and What I Can Do About It

Tantrums – Let’s Not Make This About You, Let’s Make This About Me

How I Stopped Blaming Myself for Quitting – It’s Not Me, It’s You

Christmassing in a Pandemic – It’s Time to Re-evaluate the To-Do List

Going to Extremes – Finding a Corona Balance

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