My email address, rowena@saveyourbreath101.com , is working for now until I finish redoing my offer. If you are stuck and I can help, nothing would please me more. What I want to know right now is “what is my next step to work with you”? The idea is to get out of prison and into [...]
Subscribe to reason. If you were to start over, what would you do first? Wouldn’t you look to see how to break out of parent prison? My experience in this got to be about the process of breaking myself out of the feeling of being in prison. Had to leave my husband, a single mother [...]
Recess doesn’t just happen at school. What about today’s economic environment and today’s recession? What about the stress of all THAT on the backs of parents? Unfortunately, this particular problem is not new. It’s age old and persistent. Oftentimes I wish we would just GET OVER IT, already! How do we get over it? If [...]
Power trips and struggles seem to dominate a lot of the exchanges we have with our children. It’s a major drain on our energy. Sometimes we wonder how we can possibly keep this up for 18+ years! No matter what we say, it’s a constant battle to make any headway in everyday life. It’s take [...]
Home is where the heartache is. How will you know what you need? You will FEEL it. -”When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.” ~ Unknown- Who is the student? Is it the child or is it You? It’s both. There are no accidents. As much as we would like to believe there [...]
Family history(legacy) is a VERY important aspect of how we behave as parents in relationship with our children & spouses. I’m not speaking of pure geneology here, some people are adopted. I’m speaking of what happened on a one-on-one basis to the parent(you) when they were a child… to the grandparents when they were a [...]
Great universal question you may be asking yourself!!! What’s in this parenting game for me?!! (‘Me’ meaning you) Why should I bend myself out of shape to accommodate this process? Don’t I have enough to do? The answer is ‘Yes’ to ALL of the above. It’s a big fat YES from The Source Of All. [...]
Where are you right now? Are you stuck in parenting hell? Is your energy drained and your mind fried to a crisp? I knew this feeling well. As a single, separated and then divorced Mother, it was all I could do to keep from yelling at my Son every moment. Hell, I didn’t have the [...]
Emotional abuse is what we received as a child and what we are giving to our child if what we’re feeling is anxiety, depression that we can’t get rid of or post-tramatic stress disorder. These things are varying degrees of the same thing. I remember trying to talk with someone that I thought was my [...]
Alcohol facts, drug facts and facts about depression describe a lot of what overwhelmed or lackluster parenting looks like; anxiety, restlessness, irritability, insomnia, confusion, hyper-vigilance, disorientation and sometimes acute psychotic behavior and that’s if you a sober parent! Imagine how intense this all is for the child if the parent IS a moderate to heavy [...]
