by Jeff Packer | Mar 1, 2022 | Family, Friendship, Growth & Development, Stress
What are your birthday celebrations like? Do you feel special and appreciate the day you were born? How about others? Do they call, text, email, or post on social? Are your birthdays marked by traditions such as being woken with the Happy Birthday song, maybe combined...
by Jeff Packer | Feb 22, 2022 | Growth & Development, Love & Relationships, Marriage
How often do you hear this phrase from a spouse, boyfriend or girlfriend? “We’ve grown apart.” I wonder where and when we first heard this phrase? Was it in a movie or on a TV show? Is it true? Do people grow apart? This sounds like an excuse to...
by Jeff Packer | Feb 17, 2022 | Change, Growth & Development
People express emotions and concerns so many different ways. Some lean toward expressing themselves verbally and others more nonverbally. Most draw upon one style or the other to a greater or lesser extent. Some vent softly and quietly while others shout out and...
by Jeff Packer | Feb 10, 2022 | Anxiety, Self-Care, Stress
Managing life as a teenager, student/employee, parent, and all other roles in our lives is extremely difficult when we have overwhelming feelings of worry, uncertainty, stress, and fear. One person describes his anxiety like this: “I am a person on a totally...
by Jeff Packer | Feb 8, 2022 | Children & Adolescence, Parenting, Teens
Teens Test Tolerance! Sometimes our teenagers seem to give us such a hard time that we can feel like strangling them or simply giving up. It is common to feel like this. You are not alone when you feel frustrated and overwhelmed by this stage of family life....
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