Fighting against the reality of your child’s mental illness and addiction uses up a tremendous amount of energy. That will drain you. 

If you have a teen or adult child with mental illness or addiction, acceptance is an important part of your path to peace.  This may include accepting that your lives are completely different than they were before mental illness and addiction, accepting difficult events that happened, what your child is feeling and what they are…

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Have you ever let your child’s bad mood affect your own mood?

Have you ever let your child’s bad mood affect your own mood? This can be especially tough when they are suffering from mental illness or dealing with addiction and their moods seem to go up and down frequently. When they are down, you feel down. When they are stressed, you feel stressed.  Well just like…

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Anger and frustration to appreciation and gratitude

How many times do you feel frustrated or even angry with your teen or adult child who has mental illness and/or addiction?  Of course you love him or her dearly, but you are human, and sometimes they may lash out at you or make decisions you don’t agree with or do things you don’t like…

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Happy New Year!

Wishing everyone a very happy New Year filled with hope, love, and light!  Wherever you are in your journey in life, bring into 2023 what you want more of and leave what you don’t want behind.  You are the creator of your life! While you can’t make others change, you can change your thoughts, your…

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Is the question you focus on bringing you sadness or fulfillment?

I recently attended Tony Robbins’ Date with Destiny event in Florida and something very powerful that spoke to me was what question I was subconsciously asking myself. I worked on this over a year ago, but realized my subconscious mind had changed my primary question I had then worked on, to something disempowering without me…

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Do you have a pattern for how you relate to your teen or adult child?

You may have a pattern for how you relate to your teen or adult child.  A pattern may be triggered based on certain things your child does or says. That pattern may become a habit, coming out subconsciously without you even thinking about it. This pattern may shape the relationship and communication with your child. If…

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