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What do you put your trust in?

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 What do you put your trust in? I ask this because I am learning this season. During Bible study tonight, our pastor encouraged us to take a moment and ponder what we put our trust in. I closed my eyes and visualized myself on a plank above the sea with nothing to hold onto. There was only a nail. With Easter approaching, I could not help but notice how powerful that vision is.  A plank is a type of wood. One day, thousands of years ago, three nails were hammered into a cross. So, in this vision, I knew that I put my trust in Jesus. As a Parent Coach, I want to serve families in alignment with their values. I help all parents, especially families with mental health issues. Faith is a high value of mine. I see God working in my life, and I want to acknowledge it.  This has been a broken season for my family. My mama went back to Slovenia in January. Before she left, God told me that I was heading into a fractured season. Everyone knows that seasons come and go. Change is t...
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No Magic Wand

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  No Magic Wand! Updated:  1 hour ago "I just wish I had a magic wand!" We have all heard this phrase before. The truth is that life and parenting can be so unpredictable. Any parent of little kids can agree to this. Right when they learn one phase they are already moving on the next. It can super hard to keep up! I remember feeling like this with my kids growing up. While we do not have a magic wand, we do have choices. We have choices in our responses to life's stressors. We can give into the pressure of impossible standards, or we can drop the trauma (bag of rocks) and say enough! As a Certified Parent Coach, I have the blessing of seeing parents that want to take that step! It is my honor to do this work, truly! Something that I had to wrestle with, is that I cannot make change happen, that has to be a decision that is made by my clients. I have skills, knowledge, and empathy but at the end of a phone call I am not in their homes. The work has to carry on ...
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I see and honor you!

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 Hello wonderful  parents! May I share something with you that I had been told in 2015? "You are not mental. Mental illness happened to you." This post is for the parents who find it especially hard to navigate life for themselves and families. I was diagnosed with PTSD in 2015 and bipolar in 2018. I was meeting with a parent tonight and I was able to share these wise words to her. They seemed to offer hope, that nothing was wrong with her. They certainly offered me hope when I first heard them. There is nothing wrong with having mental health. #mentalhealthishealth . Parenting is hard work! Some days we are barely able to keep it together, and then others we are laughing and being creative with our kiddos. But here's some truth for you, you don't have to keep it together! Your kids only need you! They need your love, acceptance, nurturance and yes, even your emotions. They teach them how to be human. Since they watch everything we do, we can teach them how to navig...
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