Gail Cawley Showalter

Avoid These Words Our tongues can cause us and others serious trouble, hurt and sorrow. Watch out for these three words, especially when you talk with your children. They hear you.

Does everything appear lovely on the outside of your life? All is in order? You seems to others to have everything under control? But under it all you feel uneasy, stuck or even trapped?

We all have them, those people who drive you nuts like a mosquito. Or perhaps worse like a poisonous snake. Either way there is no escaping this life without having to deal with pests.

. In this session I will share ways to avoid conflict with each of the four personalities. It’s the very nature of the parent-child relationship that naturally leads to conflict.

Were you able to identify how your personality affected your interactions with your child? Can you see how your child’s personality might cause a problem for the two of you?

Alone but Not Lonely I’ve not written about the present situation we ALL find ourselves in with the Corona-19 virus. So much is being said-over and over. Many have died, thousands are ill and most of us remain home. I’ve been home for eleven days and only went out eleven days ago to make sure […]

A dysfunctional family is a family in which conflict, misbehavior, and often child neglect or abuse on the part of individual parents occur continually and regularly, leading other members to accommodate such actions.

Editorial as it appeared in the Beaumont Enterprise, February 2, 2020 ABC’s of Wisdom – G – Gratitude “Gratitude turns what we have into enough.” – Aesop Gratitude is almost a buzzword these days. In case you don’t know a buzzword is a word or phrase that is overused and loses its original power like […]

Planning is the key. You may think it doesn’t matter because whatever you have is well, all you have. And I want you to look at a little differently. Even living with very little you can plan.