Celebrate and love yourself for how far you have come. Celebrate both you and every step you have taken to this point on your journey. Celebrate how much you have learned from the things that did and did not go as planned.

How?

Begin with capturing this affirmation as your mantra for today.

Neuroplasticity

By acknowledging your strengths and victories you rewire your brain to accept your capabilities and successes. Your brain changes with your experiences. It creates new neural pathways that are strengthened every time they are repeated. This is called neuroplasticity. The stronger the pathway, the more it shapes what you believe about what you can and cannot do and your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors.

With conscious awareness and repetition we strengthen new neural pathways.

You can begin today to focus on shifting your patterns of thinking. You can keep this small promise to yourself to stay mindful of your thinking and aware of what you are reinforcing within yourself...

Dissociation is a physiological response to not feeling safe.

It can look like spacing out or being hyper-productive.

Sometimes it's a way to self-edit ourselves into silence.

We hide our anger or rage or grief to keep the peace.

In doing so, we may dissociate to help us maintain peace around us at the cost of peace within us.

We self-edit ourselves into silence.

This can become something we learned to do a long, long time ago, as a way to adapt to fear.

When we know we are in a safe space, we can start to rewire our brain not to automatically holding everything in.

Neuroplasticity: The brain’s ability to change, remodel and
reorganize for purposes of bettering our ability to adapt to new situations.

Neuroplasticity refers to our brains ability to continuously change over the course of our lifetimes in response to our environment and injury. We can harness this power to begin to shed behaviors that were previously adaptive but no longer serve us. It's never too late...

From the day we are born until the day we die: Lifespan

What we can know, see, do (i.e. reach) today: Wingspan

The family is a system, all members influence each other. The family system changes with transitions, such as kids going off to college, marriage, divorce. Despite these changes, the family continues to exist and be a source of influence on our lives. The family system is a powerful influence on the relationships experienced by each of its members, relationships both inside and outside of the family system.

The family system continues to influence the quality of personal relationships across the life span.

It is well known that the experience of parental marital conflict and divorce may result in
long-term consequences for social outcomes and personal relationships in
young adults whose parents get divorced. The experience of parental conflict being particularly troubling for kids. The divorce itself can be a turning point in terms of conflict.

The continuing influenc...