I originally wrote this blog for a post today on my Whiskey Lover's Wife site. But I felt it needed to be shared here as well. After all, my goal is to work with people who need coaching when setback have them down. I am human, too. And more than that, I have walked wi...

If you've been following this blog, you'll know we have been discussing the idea of fighting...for your Marriage! I have shared with you several ideas from Dr. Gottman such as Love maps and intentional questions to get re-connect with your spouse, as well as sh...

Last week I began a series dealing with Fighting and Marriage...specifically, fighting FOR your marriage. Last week I discussed why the Gottman Institutes's Love Maps are a great way to connect, or re-connect with your spouse, along with scripture explaining the re...

GENESIS 2:24 and EPHESIANS 5:31 "This is why a man leaves his father and mother and bonds with his wife, and they become one flesh." (HCSB) To get started this week, let's first look at this scripture above. Man and woman become ONE FLESH. God has called...

THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PART IN EMOTION COACHING. As a parent, it is so easy for us to try to coax the emotion out of our child and then try to make light of it. But if you TRULY listen to you child, they don't want you to make light of their emotion, they want...

I am a firm believer that when there are no words to say, music says it perfectly. I have not written a blog in two months. I feel I have so much to say and to write, and when I sit to compose a blog, I don't know where to start, how to begin, or how to organize my tho...

The last blog I wrote, I talked about serving your spouse. In the past month and a half since I last wrote a blog, I realize that to serve your spouse, you must have a heart of servant leadership. And ANYONE, married or not, can have a heart of servant leadership. In f...

 This morning, laying in bed with my iPad in hand, looking at Pinterest, combing through emails, and really just wasting time so I could savor the warmth of my bed and being close to my husband, I said, "I'm really hungry. Will you go make me breakfast?" And to my tota...

 Have you ever thought you had everything perfectly planned out, only to have a shocking revelation that throws those perfect plans upside down and makes you re-think those perfect plans? For me, that happened while our family vacationed early July in Scotland.

As some...

Yeah, Yeah, if you also went to high-school in the 90's, you just started rapping the rest of this song by Vanilla Ice! And while I hope I did catch your attention, I do have powerful message for you today for strengthening your marriage!

I love my husband very much, an...