They steal your joy. They bring disapproval into your garden.  They dis you, your efforts, your children, your home, your needs, your...

It's Mother's Day; here's a card. That is the card that I have always looked for on a day like Mother's Day, Father's...

I have several friends in their 40s and 50s who are embarking on very new seasons of their lives, right here and now, at spring time wh...

It is possible to love someone who is toxic and to not keep them in your life and I am living proof. A few weeks ago I received a phone ...

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It's not true, you know. They have made us feel this way. They have criticized, corrected, sarcasmed, controlled, abused us into thin...