If you want to inspire or guide someone to an incredible outcome to simply get them to embrace a change for their life, the place to begin is meeting them where they are. It is impossible to inspire change or instill a level of trust or confidence in what you are selling, if you don’t […]
I am struggling. My 22-year-old daughter has been on a path of addiction for about five years. I constantly teeter on whether to stop communication because of the heartbreak I experience when I see her in active addiction; or, buck up and pretend there isn’t an elephant in the room named heroin and just see […]
When fear, guilt and shame are the foundational component of our parental emotions, healthy and balanced decision making suffers. When our objective is to minimize the fallout or the publicity in a family crisis, the allocation of time to think strategically about the best options, solutions, and strategies is diminished. No parent wants to discover […]
In last week’s blog, I reflected on the pressure parents put on themselves to maintain the perception everything is perfect in their home by referencing the fictitious television family, Ozzie and Harriet, as some faux standard of the perfect family dynamic. Today, every family is struggling with something. The real pressure is based on the […]
One only need to look at any of the trending barometers to know the perfect family is a television fantasy. Examine the increasing rates of divorce, unemployment and job displacement, bankruptcies, all forms of addiction, suicide, infidelity, mental health and prescription drug usage. Does anyone honestly believe every family doesn’t have something going on inside […]
