Part of taking care of yourself as a parent, a spouse, or an individual is balancing out all areas of your life. Often when a parent first comes in to a session the first thing they ask me is what I can do now to get things changing fast. My answer is always; get your marriage in line and start balancing out all other areas of your life. We are raised to think that the influence a parent has comes from their rewards, punishments, resources, or strong presence. In fact you

The definition of insanity is: “doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results.” How many tactics, rewards, punishments, lectures, lessons, and threats have you repeated over and over again, hoping to finally get your child to do what it is you want him or her to do? You even get signs every now and again that whatever tactic is about to work or may be working so you try and try again. I teach the parents I work with a very simple rule that has yet to

Parenting siblings can be a gift and a curse at the same time. Did you know that on average siblings argue every 10 minutes? Did you know it is inevitable that you will favor one sibling over the other? Did you know that the more you try to create equality the less they perceive fair and equal treatment? Did you know that 1 in 3 siblings experience some sort of abuse? I don’t throw these stats out to take hope about your family away, rather to get your focus in a more hel