Category: Parenting
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Read more: Unlearning What We Were Taught: Parenting Without Guilt & Fear
Hey everyone, Life Coach Carisa here! Have you ever found yourself parenting on autopilot, saying or doing things that sound eerily familiar… to your own parents? Perhaps you even swore as a teenager you’d never parent that way, only to find yourself repeating those very patterns. If so, you’re not alone. Many of us find…
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Read more: Breaking Free: The Real Reason You Never Have Enough Time
Hey everyone! Life Coach Carisa here! If you’re anything like I used to be, you might wake up and go to bed thinking there’s just never enough time. Or maybe when someone asks how you are, “busy” is your go-to answer. It was certainly mine! We’ve been conditioned to believe that ‘busy’ equals ‘accomplished,’ right?…
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Read more: How Your Emotional Energy Impacts Your Kids
Hi everyone, Life Coach Carisa here! Today’s topic feels particularly heavy given the heartbreaking news that happened recently—a school shooting in Georgia where two 14-year-olds and two teachers were killed by another 14-year-old student. As a mom of a 15-year-old daughter, this tragedy really hit home, reminding me just how much emotional weight our kids…
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Read more: 3 Uncommon Back-to-School Tips for a Fresh Start
Hi everyone! Life Coach Carisa here. I hope you are doing well! My daughter is headed back to school soon so I thought it was a perfect time to share some ideas for how to focus on a fresh start this school year and get back into your routines! As the back-to-school season approaches, many…
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Read more: Embracing the Middle.
Hey everyone, it’s Life Coach Carisa here! I’m thrilled to dive into a topic that’s close to my heart and incredibly important for moms everywhere: finding balance. In this blog post, I’ll be sharing insights drawn from personal experiences and the journeys of the amazing moms I work with. Together, we’ll explore the concept of…
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Read more: The Strength of a Mother.
I wanted to take this opportunity to celebrate women for International Women’s Day. International women’s Day was founded on March 8, 1911. That is 113 years this day has been set aside to honor the labor movement in the early 20th century where women advocated for better working conditions, suffrage, and women’s rights. It made…
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Read more: Coping with Life’s Curveballs.
You know, life has this funny way of throwing us curveballs. Sometimes things go smoothly, and other times, well, not so much. It’s like we’re all living this 50/50 life, where half the time things go well, and the other half, not so much. Ever wonder if celebrities and famous folks have perfect lives? I…
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Read more: Fear and Worry.
Let’s talk all about fear and worry. I believe this is a super important topic because, in our overstimulated and often uncertain world, it can bring up feelings of fear and worry in many of us. A lot of the moms I work with, fear and worry always seem to come up. Now this can…
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Read more: The Journey of Acceptance.
Acceptance. Seems like such a harmless little word doesn’t it? And yet that word has brought me so much pain, sorrow, frustration, and confusion. What about you? Have you encountered circumstances in your life that you once had difficulty accepting? Maybe you still do? It could be something that has occurred in your life, or…
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Read more: Conscious Parenting.
So what is this conscious parenting term and where did it come from? Dr. Shefali Tsabary wrote a book called The Conscious Parent in 2010. Rooted in Western Psychology, she defines conscious parenting as having less to do with the children and more to do with the parents and their relationship with themselves. It is…
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Read more: Understanding Stored Emotions.
Hi everyone! I want to help you better understand why it is so darn hard to let things go sometimes. I am going to do this by assuring you that you are absolutely not alone because I am going to be vulnerable and share a recent story from my own life experience. I am going…
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Read more: Back to School Battles.
I thought it was fitting to send out a message that ties in with back to school. I know some of my followers may not be a mom, dad, or guardian of school-age kids and relate to this back-to-school topic. If that is the case maybe you know someone that this information could help. If…
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Read more: Progress Book & Parenting.
So I am not sure if everyone knows what Progress Book is or if you may have something by another name. But our school district introduced Progress Book to my husband and I when our son was in elementary school. Progress Book is an online classroom management platform that lets you view your grades, homework,…
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Read more: Back to School & Parenting
I totally understand all that comes with trying to get back into the school routine. All the worry, stress and frustration that can come along with it. Having a 20 year old son and a 13 year old daughter, I have quite a few years of experience under my belt of raising kids in the…
