22nd October, 2009 - Posted by Christine - No Comments
I got commended today for having the tools to help my kid through a bit of anxiety about going to school (he’s almost 5, and some days kindergarten is too much for him), but I felt like saying that he (and his brother) deserved praise for making me find those tools. I grew up thinking that » Read More
20th October, 2009 - Posted by Christine - No Comments
You know how some days you seem to be skating on the top of everything, rather than diving in like you are supposed to? I now hate that I made myself think of diving into icy water, but please bear with me. I’m referring to those days that are so hectic that all you can think » Read More
28th September, 2009 - Posted by Christine - No Comments
I have been having a rough couple of weeks. The kind of cold that leaves you feeling run down but never develops into anything bad enough to make you lie down. Chilly weather. A kid that just started Kindergarten, then was sick for three days and lost his enthusiasm for the task. A couple of » Read More
26th June, 2009 - Posted by Christine - No Comments
I like a good system. As I’ve mentioned before, I am an INFJ and we have a nasty habit of getting lost in the search for the perfect system – I fight against that all the time. One real system-seeking situation for me is my To Do list. I’ve tried all kinds of systems, paper and » Read More
24th June, 2009 - Posted by Christine - No Comments
As a mom, I sometimes get my day off on the wrong track, and I try to juggle work and parenting at the exact same time, and I end up doing a half-assed job of both. I have this work sitting on the screen (or paper) in front of me and I can’t wrap my » Read More
3rd June, 2009 - Posted by Christine - No Comments
I have been reading and working through MJ Ryan’s This Year I Will… and I’ve gotten really into one aspect of her approach. Ryan suggests that asking yourself why you do a particular self-sabotaging thing repeatedly is not always useful. Asking ‘Why?’ gets your left brain analyzing the problem but it won’t necessarily trigger any solutions. » Read More
11th May, 2009 - Posted by Christine - No Comments
Okay, so you’re overwhelmed, right? Your to do list is huge, and for one reason or another you can’t get to anything on it. You feel lousy about that and that’s making it worse. You can’t focus, and you feel like lying on the couch, balancing a bowl of cheezies on your chest and watching reruns » Read More
23rd April, 2009 - Posted by Christine - No Comments
Note: From time to time I will be posting book commentaries on threedeepbreaths. This particular one is part of the MotherTalk/MomCentral book tour for Suzy Welch’s new book, and I received a free copy of the book in order to review it. If I didn’t like it, I had the option of dropping out of the » Read More
18th April, 2009 - Posted by Christine - No Comments
I’ve been out of my groove lately, my routines have all gone by the wayside in the face of house repairs and it’s driving me crazy. Before the last two weeks, had you asked me about my household routines I would have said something like : “I like the idea of routines, how they simplify your » Read More
31st March, 2009 - Posted by Christine - No Comments
The tagline of my blog says ‘Take control, feel better’ and I thought it was high time I explained that a little. I’m in the process of learning how to let go of trying to predict all possible outcomes of new situations, and how to be a little more comfortable when sitting with uncertainty, and it’s » Read More
