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Everything Belongs: Best practices for when life sucks (over and over)

September 25, 2020

Everything Belongs: Image of a theater marquis saying: The World Is Temporarily Closed

Upon occasion, when a string of life sucks circumstances has happened one after another to me and/or my loved ones, I’ve referred to that period of time as a “Job Season.” I think most people would agree: This entire year (2020) has been a “Job Season.” Just when we think things might be looking up, […]

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Filed Under: Life, Personal Development Tagged: 2020, aging parents, Being Mortal, faith, life sucks, losing a parent, pandemic, publishing a book, sexual abuse, suffering, trials, when life is difficult

Teach Your Children Well (So they don’t become a sexual abuse statistic.)

April 5, 2019

Teach Your Children Well: image of teenaged girl on the beach

April is National Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month. As a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, this topic is very important to me. And since one in four girls and one in six boys will be sexually abused before the age of 18 (according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), this issue should […]

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Filed Under: Raising Children, Sexual Abuse Tagged: childhood sexual abuse, How to prevent childhood sexual abuse, how to protect your kids from sexual abuse, incest, sexual abuse, signs of childhood sexual abuse

How to Have the “Birds and Bees Talk” with Your Kid(s)

April 28, 2017

I never had “The Talk” with my parents. You know, the often awkward conversation about how tiny human beings are created. Instead, one morning as I made my bed, I spied something poking out from between the mattress and box springs—an illustrated manual of male and female anatomy with brief, scientific explanations regarding certain body […]

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