Category Single Mothers
Career Advice & Money Saving Tips for Newly Single Moms
Parenting: it’s the hardest job of all, yet it doesn’t include a paycheck. And as a single mom, you’re likely facing even more energy-sapping challenges. Whatever the reason for your newly single parent status, adjusting can be difficult. You’re responsible for balancing the emotional and financial needs of your family — while loving and teaching your […]
Single Moms: Grief has stages
Grief has stages. It’s best not to be stuck on a stage when the curtain closes. ~ Have I been in a stage of grief too long? Perhaps I will move to the next act. I spent lots and lots of time on stage in my younger years. Many rehearsals preceded the performance. And […]
Single Moms: Appearances Do Matter
For more on the Single Mom Card Deck go to SMORE for Women Appearances do matter… especially to the male viewer. ~ Am I enhancing my assets? Related Post: We Are Attracted to Our Emotional Equal Contact Gail
Single Moms Must Make Plans and Right Choices Everyday
Making Plans and Right Choices Gail Cawley Showalter First – The decision Run it through a process. Ask yourself: What is the origin or need for a decision? Do I have intuitive reservation or hesitation about it? Am I believing thoughts that are counter productive in my situation? What are the possibilities of different choices? How […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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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