5 Healthy Habits (Post-Cancer) That Can Benefit You

Post-cancer survivor . . . That’s one of my newest labels. Like I shared last week, I’m doing as well as one might expect–fabulously and also struggling–all at the same time. From what I’ve learned (and agree with), sleep, food, and exercise are the three main pathways to optimal health. And since my diagnosis, I…

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Positive Self-Talk: Change Your Child’s Future

I cringe when I hear statements like this: “I’m a bad person for thinking that.” or “I’m so stupid!” or Someone offers a compliment to someone else and the person replies, “Oh, this ol’ thing? I look so fat in it, but I wear it anyway,” rather than just saying, “Thank you.” These are lies.…

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Do You Even Realize You Need to Forgive Yourself?

You know, we really tend to beat ourselves up. But you know what else? As parents of children with Asperger’s, autism, ADHD, ODD, PDD, OMG (the list goes on) we get blamed. We get blamed unnecessarily and we get blamed by people we trust, which is so disappointing on so many levels. I get it, but…

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