Tag: Classic

  • How to Overcome Toxic Thoughts

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    You and I encounter more toxins in a day than our grandparents did in their life time. Found in our beauty products, diet, habits, environment, and even our emotions, toxins are clogging the receptors in our bodies that were designed to bring the proper nutrients to our organs. No wonder so many of us have…

  • 6 Steps to Creating your Personal Dress Code

    6 Steps to Creating your Personal Dress Code

    Many moms have joined with Staples in celebrating this back-to-school-season as “the most wonderful time of the year.”  Especially, the moms of students with dress codes. It may have been a challenge to hunt down the khakis or figure out sizes after a summer of growth, but  it’s all worth it once the morning routine starts…

  • Here’s Why Back to School Shopping can be so Challenging

    This may be the most wonderful time of the year for some moms, but shopping for it can be a nightmare! Creating the back to school wardrobe for a nervous or indecisive student can be especially difficult when the girl’s approach to style differs from her mom’s and they do not understand each other. Trust…

  • Don’t Get Sucked Down the Drain of Depression

    Don’t Get Sucked Down the Drain of Depression

    Physical pain is an infliction on the psyche as much as it is a debilitation to the lifestyle. Disappointment in one’s own restricted abilities can create an internal confidence conflict that is hard to shake. I’m sure you have had an experience where an injury not only kept you from doing something, but also nag at…

  • 7 tips for Finding a Great Outfit Quick

    7 tips for Finding a Great Outfit Quick

    Most women make shopping an experience. We enjoy going with our girlfriends and try on lots of potential pieces for our wardrobe. Even if we have no need for clothes. The dressing room halls become our runway as we model for each other’s opinions before we make our decision: to spend or not to spend–this…

  • Are you Just Like your Mother?

    Are you Just Like your Mother?

    Social Skills 101: Never tell a woman she is old, overweight or just like her mother. While not every woman is sensitive about all of these areas, we do all have an emotional attachment to each of them. Personally, I would love to be just like my mother–she’s beautiful inside and out. Not all moms,…

  • Confident in the Challenge of Letting Go

    Confident in the Challenge of Letting Go

    This Easter I was asked to share my thoughts on the final words that Christ spoke to Mary while dying on the cross. This challenged me because I didn’t understand why Jesus called His mother “dear woman.” I know He was fully God, but wouldn’t His fully-human-side long for His “mom” in a time of…

  • Dressing for your Easter Celebration

    Some of my fondest Easter memories are of the days of preparation for our family gatherings–especially the days of shopping for all the little girls’ dresses with my mom. It was no easy assignment,

  • What Drives You?

    Every human being is in search for significance. We want to be valued, we want to have purpose, we want to make an impact in our world. This may look different for each of us, but when we understand what drives us and how to BE who we were designed to be, we become powerful,…

  • Beauty on Ice

    As my son finishes out his final year of high school, I find myself cherishing every moment before he leaves the nest. This is his last week of hockey and I am really going to miss it. I am grateful that, since childhood, my young man has had the strength and privilege to play many sports.…

  • Mary, the Confident Classic 

    Imagine being a young jewish girl preparing for your upcoming wedding and the future you will have with the man you have been promised to. You have been careful your whole life to obey the laws of your faith and you are looking forward to being with Joseph because he, too, has proven himself righteous.…

  • How do you Cope with Confidence Conflicts?

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    Every little girls longs to be seen, heard and significant. From the moment she enters this world she looks to her parents for love and protection. But not all parents meet their daughters needs well. Many little girls do not have both parents sewing into their lives. Many are not there at all. Some are…