Author Archives: Gail Cawley Showalter
One Way to Reinvent Yourself After Divorce
This journey may intiminate you. College seems like an impossible hurdle for many single parents. If you think this is the case for you, take another look at the possible destinations.
What I Learned from a Blind Student and How You Can Gain Insight When You Open Your Eyes
We could gain a great deal of insight from the blind.
First Guilt, an Early Lesson in Humility
We learn young to cover our sense of unworthiness. Pride often acts as the cover for our feelings of less-than. Humility is the only answer. Not shame but genuine acknowledgement of our responsibility. Even a child can understand this.
Divorce Hurts
7 Practical Actions for Making it Through a Divorce or Breakup by Gail Cawley Showalter, Founder of SMORE for Women There is no ache quite like heartache. Ending a relationship is often a life-altering event. In some cases it means a child may not grow up knowing the ‘other parent.’ In the case of […]
Boundaries Within, A Boundaries Message with an Easter Twist
Presented by Gail Cawley Showalter at SMORE Sunday Group Of all our boundaries our internal ones are the most confusing, complex, and conflicting. When you fail to control your personal issues, habits, even addictions, you may experience embarrassment even shame. You could be dealing with holding your tongue or abstaining from substance abuse. The degree of the […]
The Top 10 Manners Everyone Should Use
The Top 10 Manners Everyone Should Use By Corrie Petersen How many times have you gone into a public place and have had someone not use their manners with you or someone else? It happens all the time and it’s possible the reason is because we were never taught what manners are and how we […]
Are You Safe, from Yourself, in Your Workplace?
Boundaries in the Workplace Message presented by Gail for SMORE Class at Calder Baptist Church, February 19, 2012 Do you have enough confidence to protect yourself at work? Not from sexual harassment, racial or age discrimination, but from your own vulnerable boundary lines. Do you have the courage to set boundaries where you spend probably […]
Responsibility is a Gift You Give Your Child
A Good Work Ethic Begins Early Gail Cawley Showalter In what Tom Brokaw penned “The Greatest Generation,” men and women who came of age during the Great Depression and World War II, “were united not only by a common purpose, but also by common values—duty, honor, economy, courage, service, love of family and country, and, […]
When the Path is Blocked
Taken from The Book of Awakening by Mark Nepo When the path is blocked, back up and see more of the way. . . .often our path to love is interrupted by a mishap or a problem or something unexpected that needs attending. We tend to call these unexpected things in life “obstacles.” Often the […]
Growth
I am infatuated – by growth. A seed placed in dirt and manure can become a vegetable. An acorn becomes an oak tree. A seed sprouts into a flower. I adore people who embrace personal growth. I live for the moments when I learn something that – Could make me a better person, I could […]
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