People Pleasers notice things. They quickly recognize when someone approves of them…or disapproves. Then we…I mean, they…ok, it’s ME, I’m the People Pleaser…immediately make the connection between what we did or said with why the other person liked or didn’t like us. Immediately. People Pleasers think being liked, loved, accepted, praised, or even disliked, hated,Continue reading “Recovering People Pleaser, Part 1”
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Word of Appreciation Matter
I’m up early this morning, and I already have tears. Good ones, though, thankfully. Every morning, I wake up to an email inbox full of unread messages, at least 30 or 40 every day. A few are marketing emails, some are related to my professional mentoring group, others are humdrum parent questions or receipts fromContinue reading “Word of Appreciation Matter”
Update Your Self Care
Girl, why are you struggling so hard to take care of yourself? Why are you chasing that thing that has always calmed you down? What you used to do to feel better? How you have coped before? You’re not the same person. You are not the same woman you were 10 years ago, 5 yearsContinue reading “Update Your Self Care”
HIS Dream Realized
My husband has always dreamed of having bees. Yep…like beekeeping…an apiary. He has talked about it for 25 years. Friday, I recorded him and our girl releasing about 30,000 bees into the hives he worked to order, stock, and build. I’ve watched him plan it for weeks, place online orders, stack up supplies, and gatherContinue reading “HIS Dream Realized”
Relationship Score Keeping
Why are we keeping score? “I checked on her 3 times while she was sick, and she hasn’t checked on me once.” “I repeatedly text her and invite her to lunch. Would it kill her to text and ask me for a change?” “She has time to go running around doing all that mess, butContinue reading “Relationship Score Keeping”
Weight Loss & Accountability…just no.
So I’ve been thinking about telling y’all that I’m going to start trying to lose weight. Telling you would mean accountability, though, and accountability means…um… having to be accountable…for actually doing it. *sigh* Why is weight loss hard? It’s not hard to eat birthday cake. Why is weight loss accountability so hard? It’s not hardContinue reading “Weight Loss & Accountability…just no.”
I basically struck gold.
Good Morning, Fancy People! I have enjoyed a pretty stress-free Spring Break with my favorite people, and I hope you have, too. I’m not sure I’m ready to go back to work, but at the same time, I am SO ready to go back to work and make big things happen! I wrote a blogContinue reading “I basically struck gold.”
20 Ways To Love Yourself
1) Don’t respond to that email, text, or phone call. 2) Let that housework wait; it will still be there later. 3) Take a shower, smell good, and show up with your chin up. 4) Say “no” with a smile, because you really are too busy to take on another thing. 5) Don’t put upContinue reading “20 Ways To Love Yourself”
Let go of the crap.
Funny, isn’t? Funny to think about your old self, or maybe what the rest of the world is still doing, when you decide to be completely done with… Stupid crap. Fake crap. Meaningless crap. Other people’s crap. Political crap. Crap that ain’t my business. Dramatic crap. Pretentious crap. It’s the biggest challenge of all –Continue reading “Let go of the crap.”
It makes me tired.
I’ll just go ahead and say it, because I know y’all are thinking it, too. Sometimes, I don’t want to hear about other people’s problems. Anybody’s. The world’s. The economy’s. Whoever. Whatever. It makes me tired. There. It’s out…for all of us. That doesn’t sound very nice, I know, but seriously. I just don’t haveContinue reading “It makes me tired.”
Amanda Herring, Writer 