So many of us are walking around with childhood wounds that are influencing our relationships, our choices and how we cope and deal with life.

And we just haven’t made that connection yet,” she added.

That’s where reparenting comes in.

Reparenting is a therapeutic technique that might help you save yourself and future generations from a lot of pain.

People tend to treat themselves and their emotions the way they were treated by their parents.

Reparenting is relearning how to respond to yourself better.

The book will be released in July.

“life is good when you are happy, but much better

when others are happy BECAUSE OF YOU.”

Pope Francis

His father is in his 90’s.

The son drives every other weekend to visit his father.

It is a five hour car trip to get there.

So, the son departs Saturday morning and arrives at his father’s house early in the afternoon.

He prepares a hot meal for Saturday dinner and a second meal for Sunday evening.

He also checks the house to see that things are in order.

He stays at his dad’s house Saturday night.

Sunday morning they go to his father’s church together.

After church he departs for the five hour drive back home Sunday afternoon.

He has been doing this for many years.

That’s devotion.

There seem to be no accurate numbers.

However, the educated guess is between 2% and 10% of the U.S. population.

This translates into 3 million to 15 million people.

Most people addicted to video games are young.

So, these young people are not building and maintaining relationships as much as they should.

If you have a child or teen addicted to video games, please look into its negative impact.

If not today, when?

Do you live with gratitude?

Sometimes when I bring up this topic, people begin reciting their problems.

Yes, it’s true that we do have difficulties that must be addressed.

But, is your glass half empty or half full?

So, we must always decide to dwell on our blessings not our shortcomings.

Even though we wake up each morning with work to be done, we must be grateful.

Grateful for our life!

Grateful for our health!

Grateful for our freedom!

Grateful for God’s love!

Grateful if even one person loves us!

Live with gratitude!

If not today, when?

(GHANDI)

Mahatma Ghandi was an inspirational, deep thinker who challenged our values.

We are often distracted by the urgencies of our daily lives.

But, we must sometimes pause to ask ourselves, “Am I doing what is truly important to me?”

Is there something important that you have avoided until now?

Could it make this world a better place?

If you can enhance the life of one person, you will have made this world better!

If not today, when?

Kids who develop early may become anxious not understanding changes in themselves, and late-developing kids may see some changes in their classmates and wonder, “what’s wrong with me?”

Instead of parents waiting until asked by the child, it is suggested giving your child information in bits and pieces over time “to help your kid get the concept that these changes are going to happen. They are normal.”

And while nearly half of parents said they felt “very confident” in recognizing signs of puberty in their children,  “parents might be a little overconfident.

Some of those first changes are subtle” — like hair growing and voices changing — and parents can’t actually see the hormonal or emotional changes.

“When we’re talking about these younger kids, 7, 8, 9, maybe even 10, as they’re just getting started with puberty, they don’t necessarily need the sex talk,” stating that tweens and teens need a conversation about what is or will soon happen with their body and emotions. (CNN)

In the above photo, people celebrate the life of Pope Francis who died today.

The first book he wrote as Pope, is “The Name Of God Is Mercy!”

The Pope felt that the centrality of our lives MUST BE MERCY.

He believed we should live with a driving force and that force is called MERCY!

He stated that MERCY is not waiting for someone to knock on your door.

MERCY is going out into the streets to find them!

When he was younger Francis used to go out at night alone and knock on the doors of the poor to visit them.

When we live that kind of life, we follow Jesus.

The important concept of faith is not what services we go to or how much money we give,

it is how we care for the needs of others.

There was this 2018 meta-analysis that looked at a wide variety of different health conditions from diabetes to hypertension, to birth outcomes, ADHD in children, eyesight in kids.

And it found that almost across the board, these studies showed some benefit when people spent more time outside.

So in general, the trend says that nature is good for our bodies and brains.

And it’s backed up by lab studies, right?

Where they’re looking at body hormones and neurotransmitters. They’re looking at blood pressure and heart variability response.

When people spend time sitting in or looking at nature scenes versus urban scenes, these markers respond in a positive way. (Chasing Life)

Simple but effective advice!