I can’t tell you the number of women who beat themselves when their relationship falls apart. Whether it is a marriage that has dissolved or a child who has walked away or even a friendship that has gone sour, many women see faults in themselves and shoulder all of the responsibility for the broken relationship….
How many times have you tried to change yourself to please someone else? How many times have you thought, “If only I was prettier, smarter, funnier, or different things would be different”? How many times has that worked? In trying to please someone else, we lose ourselves. Many of us have been “lost” for a…
A spouse’s betrayal shakes your world. My husband’s sudden abandonment rattled my sense of safety, my place in the world, and my very core. Literally overnight I lost my role as wife and full time mother as well as the person I had believed was my best friend. I didn’t know it was going to…
I’ve talked before about how I wasn’t a math person but became a math teacher after my husband left. When my back was against the wall and I needed to put food on the table to feed my kids, I found I could do things I never imagined possible. Math certification is just one of…
My biggest life regrets don’t come from doing things I didn’t know were wrong. They come from not standing firm for things I knew were right. I am not alone in that. Many women know God’s Commandments. For many of us, it’s not a matter of what to do. It’s a matter of how to…