Your C.O.R.E. Potential

Your C.O.R.E. Potential Why C.O.R.E.? If you haven’t already noticed, C.O.R.E. is one of my absolute favorite things to talk about. In a nutshell, C.O.R.E. is the  temperament-based personality model that I developed over years of research. It helps us understand the innate part of us that doesn’t change and motivates why we do the […]

Healthy+Happy Holiday Survival Guide: Part III

Healthy+Happy Holiday Survival Guide: Part III Making the Most of What You’ve Got With Christmas coming in a matter of days, there comes a point where you realize that you can only give what you’ve got. It’s unlikely that your family will suddenly lose all signs of dysfunction. Your house will likely have areas that […]

Healthy+Happy Holiday Survival Guide: Part II

The C.O.R.E. of Your Holidays It seems like nowadays, stress and the holiday season are a package deal. There are a lot of reasons why that could be–we even talked about a few of them–but the most important thing is that we learn to thrive amongst it. We don’t want our holiday season marred by […]

Healthy+Happy Holiday Survival Guide: Part I

Not-So-Happy Holidays Despite the radio’s continuous barrage of so-called ‘Holiday Favorites,’ informing us that it is the season to be merry and bright, the holiday season is often a time of high stress, decreased serotonin, and unmet expectations. Actually, one of the biggest reasons the holidays can be so stressful is because of all of […]

Understanding Your C.O.R.E.

When my family and I are all sitting together watching a movie or TV show, we will often sit there and laugh together as we try to identify the main character’s C.O.R.E. types. My adult daughters have leaned heavily on their understanding of C.O.R.E. as they date, learn to live with roommates, make friends, and […]

What is Said vs. How it’s Said

How It Started… When an event occurs, the body reacts by sending a message up to the brain telling us that *something* happened. We then interpret our body’s reaction to the event, feeling and then acting in response to our interpretation. Now, the thing is that most of this process happens without us really realizing […]

Need to Recharge?

A Drained Battery Have you ever gotten out of bed and pulled your cellphone off the charger… Just to find that it hadn’t recharged during the night? The same thing can happen to us!  You know those mornings when you wake up and it still feels like the middle of the night, instead of feeling recharged […]

Feeling Safe in Your Relationships

Attachment Attachment Theory is a theory of human relationships that seeks to explain how the close or intimate relationships in our lives work. Put simply, attachment is about what happens when we are emotionally disorganized. And what do we need when we are emotionally disorganized? A safe place to turn–or in this case- a secure […]

What Do Others Think of You?

Assumptions…Good and Bad The way that you feel others view you can tell you a lot about how you *actually* view yourself. You might consider yourself to be a confident person, but when you walk into a room full of people whispering, do you assume that they are speaking poorly about you? On the other […]

Suck’n Mud…24/7

Where You ARE: You wake up to a messy house every morning. Your job makes you miserable. You love your kids/spouse/parents/etc. but you aren’t sure if you like them… You weigh about 15 pounds more/less than you did at the start of Covid and it’s starting to worry you. You look at your life and […]