My teen read this and was inspired to share some thoughts on relationships, breakups, and “think positive!” advice she’s received. Check out her thoughts here: Love Me Those Breakups. We hear about positive thinking and that we should always “think…

My teen read this and was inspired to share some thoughts on relationships, breakups, and “think positive!” advice she’s received. Check out her thoughts here: Love Me Those Breakups. We hear about positive thinking and that we should always “think…
Thoughts are kind of funny things. They can seem insignificant, inconsequential, something that happens, beyond our control. And they are the sleepers of life: wildly powerful. Where our thoughts regularly go, so do we. It’s not about “thinking positively!” all…
If we want our children to belong to themselves*, to know and feel and get that they are awesome and worthy and enough and full of potential and possibility, that they do not need to fit into the box of…
I used to think that caring about the thoughts rolling around in my head was stupid, impractical, and kind of a waste of time. I mean, thoughts just showed up. What command did I have over them? I wasn’t the…