Stories

Champagne? Sparkling cider? Check. Reservations or party plans? Check. Appropriate outfit? Check. List of New Year’s resolutions? Ch…er, uh…wait a minute. The story is probably apocryphal about the office football-pool organizer who once took bets on which staffer would last the longest before breaking every resolution on his or her list. But the point of

But where does that leave you if you don’t have anything to give in the first place?  This Valentine’s Day, I invite you to give to yourself first.   As busy parents, we are on Pinterest trying to create the perfect gift or Valentine for our children or are otherwise riddled with guilt that we

Body image Many of the women I worked with in therapy had negative feelings about their body image. One client thought her ears were ugly and had them pulled closer to her head. She was surprised that she didn’t feel any different after the plastic surgery. Change comes from inside us, not the outside. Over

This article is an excerpt from Steffani Raff’s The Ravenous Gown. But finding a wife was challenging. In this kingdom, there were no easy arranged marriages with princesses from far distant shores. Instead, the King was required by custom to find a bride from within the kingdom. He took his problem to his most trusted

            “Why don’t you write a nice story for me?”             “Aaaaahhh . . . I don’t know what to write about.”             You had the right idea. You’re encouraging your bored child to fill the time creatively and constructively, by exercising that most important of mental “muscles,” his imagination.