by Jessica Temple | Jul 16, 2020 | Self-Care and Stress
Combatting Compassion Fatigue: Easy and Effective Strategies, Part 1 Combatting compassion fatigue can be a challenge for parents caring for children with significant disabilities and special needs. Jessica Temple, a clinical neuropsychologist and mom of two children...
by Liz Matheis | Jun 25, 2020 | Self-Care and Stress
Anxiety Tamers for a COVID-19 World Anxiety tamers for a COVID-19 world. Who would have thought, 6 months ago, that a post title like this one would be commonplace? Not me and not today’s guest blogger, Liz Matheis. Yet here she is with 3 simple and practical anxiety...
by Jolene | Jun 22, 2020 | Self-Care and Stress
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. ~Annie Dillard I love Annie Dillard. Her books on writing like life...
by Laura Spiegel | Jun 11, 2020 | Self-Care and Stress
Learning to Give Grace to Ourselves and to Our Children Learning to give grace to ourselves and to our children is a life long endeavor. Guest blogger Laura Spiegel shares her most recent lesson about learning to give grace in this post. It’s 9:30 on a Tuesday, and...
by Jolene | Jun 9, 2020 | Self-Care and Stress
Smile Makers for Stressed Parents Smile makers for stressed parents have been hard to find since the coronavirus shut down. While dads and moms have been busy juggling distance learning and working from home, I’ve run across several smile makers for stressed parents....
by Jolene | May 20, 2020 | Self-Care and Stress
Count Your Blessings: A Way To Stay Sane in a Crisis Count your blessings, name them one by one,Count your blessings, see what God has done! When I was much younger, I rolled my eyes every time we sang this hymn at church. To my mind, the lyrics touted a solution far...
