I’ve been witness lately to a number of strong, independent women who end up around the age of 40 experiencing a “mid-life crisis.” They decide that their husband or partner isn’t giving them what they need, and they want to leave the relationship. I think it has less to do with being in mid-life and [...]

In virtually every long term relationship, someone (and probably both someones) will feel unappreciated.  So much of what goes into managing a household, a relationship, a job or business, and a family has to do with minutia.  All the tiny little things that have to get done every single day, to say nothing of the [...]

I’ve been wrestling with the concept of independence for five years now.  I learned codependence really well as a teenager and young adult.  I did the traditional thing:  got married young (at 23) and did the untraditional thing by waiting until I was 30 to have a child… that’s right, just one child, on purpose.

The Universal Law of Attraction states that like attracts like; what we think about and feel about the most, at the deepest level of our being, is what we will attract into our lives.  This is true, even when we don’t like what the Universe is handing us. When it comes to romantic love, it’s [...]

Last week I wrote about speaking authentically.  How on earth is a person supposed to remember to speak authentically when they’re in the middle of an argument?  Well, that’s the time it’s the most important, so the more you practice when you’re not arguing, the better you’ll be.