Category Single Mothers
Life After Divorce
Divorce is often costly, and can be devastating for all parties involved – partners, children, parents, and grandparents.
Pay Attention to Signs on Your Path
This morning I took the wrong path. Or better said, I didn’t take the correct path.
Take Care of Yourself
There is one habit I’d like to see women, especially single moms, change. I wish more moms would take better care of themselves.
What is Acceptance, 7 Steps to Get Past Divorce
What does that mean exactly? After much thought this is the conclusion I’ve come to- Acceptance is the willingness to embrace what is.
A Thought on Rest from a Seasoned Mama Bird
Do you have to be made to rest? Or do you have to become ill before you will rest?
How to Keep Your Family Active This Season as a Single Parent
It can be difficult – or nearly impossible – to balance your work and home life as a single parent. You work more hours than not. Once you get home, the house needs to be cleaned, the kids need to be fed, the plants need to be watered, and you have to prepare yourself for the next day.
Have you been rejected?
Are You Accepted/Rejected? We hold a status in society – married or divorced, stay-at-home mom or working mom, white collar or blue collar, successful or on welfare, home owner or homeless, physically fit or disabled, black or white. If you’ve ever changed from one status to another you may know the sting of judgment that […]
True Love Needs Space
Even when I first married I had a sense that I would lose myself in marriage, especially that marriage. And I did. That happens when a Popular Sanguine people pleaser marries a Powerful Choleric with a strong and condescending nature.
Healthy emotional individuals are comfortable with their separateness. They don’t lose themselves in a relationship. They allow the other person to be a separate individual. There is no jealousy or possessiveness.
How My Experiences Taught Me About Life
Landing a job requires a level of confidence that may be damaged by divorce or an abusive marriage. Interviews require confidence. We all know it takes to courage to sell yourself and your skills. I recall an early job search of my own.
3 Steps Towards Acceptance
I have an idea. Just as an experiment, take three days and practice acceptance. I mean accepting something about another person that you’d prefer were different. When you are faced with that something you do not like follow immediately with a deliberate thought of something you like about the person. It may be something small, even insignificant or it may be something truly important. Pet peeves are a good place to start.
Gail Cawley Showalter 