Author Archives: Gail Cawley Showalter

How to Set Personal Boundaries and Change Your Life Forever

Setting Boundaries Can Change Your Life from message given by Gail Cawley Showalter at the 2014 SMORE Retreat What if I told you – this one topic can change your life forever? Boundaries are the source of many of the difficulties that I notice when I talk with single mothers. Difficulties often start in childhood. […]

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How to Be a Super Mom in Little Ways

Little Things Make a Big Impression Gail holds a degree from Lamar University in Speech and a Master’s from the University of Texas. She married Sam after raising three children as a single mother. She was an educator in regular and special education for eighteen years, finishing her professional career as a Braille teacher. In […]

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How to Leave Your Past Behind and Start a New Life and Future

  Buckner Family Place Buckner Children and Family Services,Inc. Are you a single mom who needs a skill, an education, a college degree? Buckner offers you a way. The Buckner Family Place model devotes itself to protecting children, promoting independence and building strong families through Christ-centered values. Since 1997, Family Place programs have served more than 550 single […]

How to Approach Christmas as Single Mom & Teach Children to Respect Money

Christmas is More than Money

What is An Appointed Encounter?

An Arranged Encounter I’m about to get out of the car to go into Bed Bath & Beyond to do some Christmas shopping when I see her. A young women is trying to say something to me. When I get out of the car she says, “Directions, directions.” She looks harmless and honest. “I’ve been […]

How to Return to College and Change Your Life – Tanisha Did

 Single Moms Can Return to College What was your means of income before you returned to college? Before returning to college, I worked for a company in which you could only be promoted if you had a college degree. Can you recall the first trigger or event that caused you to think about returning to […]

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Why You Should Set Boundaries & Live Your Life

Set Boundaries & Live Your Life   Gail holds a degree from Lamar University in Speech and a Master’s from the University of Texas. She married Sam after raising three children as a single mother. She was an educator in regular and special education for eighteen years, finishing her professional career as a Braille teacher. […]

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What Do You Regret and What Will You Not Regret?

Related Posts: LaTasha Returned to College, Kay Miller Horne Returned to College, You Can Return to College Gail holds a degree from Lamar University in Speech and a Master’s from the University of Texas. She married Sam after raising three children as a single mother. She was an educator in regular and special education for […]

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Where Do You Find Your Still Waters?

Find Your Still Waters

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How Single Parents Raise a Secure Child

To Raise a Secure Child – You Need to Attach When I was raising three kids as a single mother, I was often too exhausted to think straight. I needed direction or a director. Now I’m a tough old bird with a soft spot for single moms, and I learned a few things along the […]