Self Care

Self Care

Setting and Protecting Your Priorities

Why Core Values and Self Care Should Be Our Top Priorities

Foster Parenting Special Topics

5 Tips for Being An Awesome Single Foster Parent

Building Relationships

Areas of Agreement Essential to Keeping Your Marriage Strong

Setting and Protecting Your Priorities

How Foster and Stepparents Can Set Important Boundaries with Kids

Setting and Protecting Your Priorities

Parents Need Mentors, Too — How and Where to Find Your People

Building Relationships

How to Make Family Suppers Part of Your Parenting Toolkit

Setting and Protecting Your Priorities

5 Reasons Why and How Parents Can Learn Self-Compassion

Setting and Protecting Your Priorities

Five Reasons Foster and Stepparents Need Self Care

Foster Parenting Special Topics

Five Important Principles for Single Foster Parents

Five Ways to Deal with Being Overlooked on Mothers’ and Fathers’ Days

Foster Parenting Special Topics

Foster Parents Often Feel Alone, But Three Ideas Can Help

Encouraging Resilience

Six Ways to Help Our Children Stay Hopeful

Building Relationships

The Best Reason To Keep Trying With Our Kids

Building Relationships

How the 80/20 Rule Can Strengthen Your Family Relationships

Five Principles for Parents to Regroup and Recharge for the New Year

Setting and Protecting Your Priorities

Feeling Lonely as a Stepparent is Common, and There Is Help

Setting and Protecting Your Priorities

The Importance of Taking One Step at a Time

Why and How We Need to Manage Our Expectations for the Holidays

Foster Parenting Special Topics

25 Techniques for Foster Parents Who Work Full Time

Foster Parenting Special Topics

Five Principles for Successful Single Foster Parenting

Strong Commitments and Healthy Boundaries

How Healthy Boundaries Can Be Your Best Self-Care

Setting and Protecting Your Priorities

Five Principles of Effective Self-Care for Foster and Bonus Parents

Setting and Protecting Your Priorities

Five Things to Remember When You Can't Do It All

Foster Parenting Special Topics

How the System Loses Good Foster Parents

Foster Parenting Special Topics

How Foster Parents Can Protect Themselves Against Unfounded Allegations

Foster Parenting Special Topics

Five Ways You Can Help Foster Parents

Media/Podcasts/Speaking

Join Me at the Renew Retreat in Raleigh, NC

Building Relationships

How to Remain Sane When Your Adult Children Still Live at Home

Foster Parenting Special Topics

Why Respite Care is An Important Resource for Foster Parents

Foster Parenting Special Topics

Important Ways to Meet the Challenges of Single Parenting

Foster Parenting Special Topics

What I Wish I Had Known About Foster Parenting

Building Relationships

Four Ways to Limit Parenting Stress

Strong Commitments and Healthy Boundaries

Case Study: We Need Boundaries to Protect Our Entire Family

Lessons About the Holidays I Learned At Walt Disney World

Being the Person Who Is Not Supposed to Be There

What It Means To Recognize Our Children Have Agency

Encouraging Resilience

One Important Way to Show Children How to Resist Bullying

Building Relationships

How To Reduce Burnout By Letting Go of Decisions

Setting and Protecting Your Priorities

One Key Reason that We Burn Out as Parents

Finding and Enforcing Logical Consequences

Why I Look for Low-Maintenance Consequences for Children

Foster Parenting Special Topics

A Story of Unfair Accusations Against Foster Parents

Being the Person Who Is Not Supposed to Be There

How To Be The Person Who Is Not Supposed To Be There

What to Do When You Hate Mothers'/Fathers' Day

Building Relationships

How to Help Stepsiblings Get Along and Keep the Peace

Setting and Protecting Your Priorities

The Importance of Balancing All of Our Commitments

Setting and Protecting Your Priorities

Why You Should Make Your Marriage Your Top Priority

Setting and Protecting Your Priorities

My Resolution for 2021: To Be More Boring

Strong Commitments and Healthy Boundaries

We Are Not Responsible for Everything

Being the Person Who Is Not Supposed to Be There

Making It Down The Hill