The Values Variable that Drives Drawn Out Conflicts


You often deal with conflicts pretty effectively. Right? 

You deal with conflicts in your marriage, conflicts with your parents, conflicts with your in laws, conflicts at work, at church, or in your friend groups… wherever it is… there are conflicts that we have to deal with and many —even most of them — are very minor.  So we deal with them and we move on, and sometimes we don't even think anything else about them.  As adults we may think that we’re pretty well versed in handling conflicts. 

Most of the time. 


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Coming out of the F.O.G. in Adoptive Parenting


Do you sometimes feel like you're in a fog?
 
Fog = F - O - G  for Fear, Obligation, Guilt.
 
If you feel like you're in a lingering fog in your adoptive family this is for you.

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Holiday PEACE Planning for Adoptive Moms in Complex Families

Holiday Peace Planning

We know that holidays are beautiful, Christmas is wonderful. I love Christmas and maybe you do too. But it can also be stressful and overwhelming. And it can be a lot of different things. It can be very emotional, both good and maybe not so good negative emotions. 

And so for our adoptive and complex families it can be it can have another layer or 10 added to what's kind of typical and so if you're right now feeling really, really concerned about going through the rest of this holiday season going into Christmas and New Year's Eve and the school break and all the food and all the family or all the get togethers or maybe all the expectations…



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