family relationships

It's Never Too Late to Build a Stronger Bond with Your Father: Tips for Adult Children

It's Never Too Late to Build a Stronger Bond with Your Father: Tips for Adult Children

Moving your relationship closer with your father—relative to where wherever it is today—can open your potential for greater inner peace and self-esteem, clarity and purpose, and capacity to receive love and blessings along your soul’s journey. 

The Stress of Family Gatherings: 5 Tips for Calm and Balance During the Holidays

The Stress of Family Gatherings: 5 Tips for Calm and Balance During the Holidays

We are tribal by nature, it’s fundamental for us to survive and thrive. This is why our family members are often best at pushing our buttons and why our family gatherings often come with such mixed emotions. Here are 5 tips to create harmony and the most of this year’s family get-togethers.

Empty Nesting: The Upsides, Downsides and Tips for a Fresh Chapter Mindset

Empty Nesting: The Upsides, Downsides and Tips for a Fresh Chapter Mindset

I’ve come to understand empty nest as a verb, “empty nesting” I like to call it. The letting go process is fundamental to parenting and continuous. Some empty nest experiences create such emotional turmoil and sadness that parents face empty nest syndrome. Each person needs to find where they want to direct that new energy but I think the first step is to frame this stage of life with a FRESH CHAPTER MINDSET. 

The 3 Major Sources of Thanksgiving Stress: Self Care Tools for Each One

The 3 Major Sources of Thanksgiving Stress: Self Care Tools for Each One

Let’s talk about the main sources of stress leading up to Thanksgiving and self care tips––for mind, body and spirit.

The Parent-Adult Child Dynamic: Sources of Tension and Healing the Distance

The Parent-Adult Child Dynamic: Sources of Tension and Healing the Distance

Discontent between parents and their adult children has been around for centuries. In today’s times, however, the pursuit of personal growth and happiness among millennials is empowering the breaking of cycles and setting of new boundaries. The younger generations don’t want to follow the status quo and the older generations don’t understand why their children don’t appreciate and respect their elders' ways, contributions and rights.

The Power of Our Words

The Power of Our Words

To build or destroy—this is the choice we have with our words every day, the watershed moments we face in those often undetectable pauses before we open our mouths (or keep them closed).

Bridging the New Generation Gap: Meet the Parennials

Bridging the New Generation Gap: Meet the Parennials

Many variables can cause strain between parents and their children, but the extent to which parennials are doing things differently has created quite a shake up in many American families. As one of my grandmother clients was recently informed, “It’s a new world, Mom.”

Family Business Survival Guide: How to Maintain Healthy Relationships In a Family Business

Family Business Survival Guide: How to Maintain Healthy Relationships In a Family Business

What are some tips for those involved in a family business, directly or indirectly? How can families maintain their family bond amidst the often tricky dynamics of running a business? How can family members best deal with emotions that can arise when members feel a threat to their power and place in the family, or their self esteem? Here are 4 proactive ideas to consider.

A Stronger Connection with Dad: Why it Matters and Tips to Make it Happen

A Stronger Connection with Dad: Why it Matters and Tips to Make it Happen

Strengthening our connection with our fathers--directly or indirectly, physically or metaphysically--opens important channels of success and happiness in our lives. From all sides of the family dynamic, read on for some suggestions to consider to help fathers and their children create a stronger connection.