Love and encouragement from an imperfect mom and her fun teen daughters. We welcome you to live life with us.
Encouragement for gals to see their inner value
We gals need friends, in plural. Having one best friend, to the exclusion of other friends, limits our emotional and spiritual growth. We need friends from different walks of life (economic, racial, educational, and even by personality). We also need more than one best friend, because we can become needy or even codependent when we … Read more More Than One Friend
Mothers are over looked, under valued, but God sees our worth, and our impact on the future is essential.
As a Christian, I never tied my grief to my over eating. I denied I even felt any grief and blamed my weight issues on stress. While I was in my early twenties, Janet, a petite friend confronted this stress eating that others had called my poor self control. She saw me exercising, … Read more Embracing Grief
We gals judge ourselves too harshly. But we may not have started out that way. I shared about how researchers asked kindergartners if they could dance, sing and draw, and these children said, “Yes!” Yet as girls aged, their answers changed to say, “I cannot” I want to address another way this happens. The researchers … Read more More Reflections on Overcoming Silencing of Gals
I pray that many gals will read this post, because I am so grieved by how many women (gals) do not see themselves as beautiful. I once attended an amazing church, Rock Harbor. The pastor spoke about his wife who had a past she regretted. Yet she was kind, good hearted, even beautiful. Her husband … Read more All Gals are Beautiful