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5 Reasons Why You Should Practice Prenatal Yoga

While yoga has become wildly popular amongst all ages, genders and lifestyles, the benefits of this mind and body exercise on a pregnant woman and her unborn child are almost unsurpassed.

Many women may try to avoid yoga, especially in the later parts of their pregnancy when just getting off the couch sounds like a challenge, but there are

Tips on Teaching Your Child How to Pray the Rosary

As Catholic parents, it is so important to pass on the knowledge of our faith to our children and no age is too young to begin learning. But some days it can feel like a chore, rather than a blessing, to share these amazing fruits of our faith.

Here are some simple tips that, when applied, can turn showing our children the gift of

Social Anxiety: The Invisible Struggle

I struggle with social anxiety. It took me many years to realize that the fear, worry, illness and overall terror that I would feel from even the simplest social situation actually had a diagnosis. For most of my life, I just thought I was shy or had poor social skills. Never did I realize what the true problem was and so I suffered

Want to Be a Better Parent? Try This

There are books and blogs galore on how to improve our parenting. Turn
off the TV. Be present. Eat dinner together. Listen. The list of tips
is endless. While each piece of advice may help transform your
relationship with your child, there is one thing, one line of thinking,
that every parent needs in order to be successful.



Be selfless.




Now I am not talking about

INFJ: The Importance of Our Label

We live in a culture where labels come with a negative connotation. Fear of being boxed in or misrepresented runs through everyone as tags seem to be attached to them. Every person is unique and different and labels are thought to remove this uniqueness.

But sometimes those labels spin around into something miraculous. Rather than acting

Writing From the Soul: A Practice Nearing Extinction

Since before words, man has been writing as a primary form of self-expression. Painted images on cave walls and chiseled pictures into stone, artwork has filled our primitive history. As languages developed, so did our methods of art. While pictures still grace our society, words are also used as self-expressive art flowing across the

Have You Even Read the Laws?

You know what I was doing last night? I was sitting at the computer, tirelessly reading through laws and statutes for my state to ensure that I was following all the rules for homeschooling my children. I was looking up standards and loopholes, deciphering oddly worded lingo and fishing through vague statements easily open to interpretation.



I was essentially reading a manual on what I

Lies Most Parents Tell Their Children

I recently ran across the article 20 Lies Parents Tell Their Children and the title intrigued me as I have often had a list running through my own head. After reading it, I was simply left disappointed. This area of great importance was sadly wasted on many points that are not, in fact, lies but instead seemed to be used as a platform for a presumably bitter man.

In an attempt to fill the