Stress Management for Moms

What are Affirmations and How Do They Work?

2010-08-05T12:34:00.000-07:00

Click here to listen to the Podcast What are affirmations and how do they work? These are the types of questions that I have found the most common. I love the use of affirmations and believe them to be very powerful tools for creating change, give clarity to our desires, and solidify goals. For those of you that would like to incorporate the use of affirmations in your daily life, but are not

The Top 10 Tools for Living Your Best Life

2010-07-09T08:05:00.000-07:00

By Jeanette Griffin Whatever your goals are for creating a positive lifestyle—whether it is creating a less stressed life, setting new health goals, strengthening your relationships, or being more motivated to accomplish your goals—the following tools have the greatest impact on my life and countless others’...Read more... Want to learn more about living positively or managing stress? Contact

Let Go and Live: Experiencing Emotional Freedom

2010-07-07T09:27:00.000-07:00

By Jeanette Griffin Having children is one of the best training grounds for learning the all too important lesson of letting go. We begin learning this from the time our child takes their first unassisted step. We feel mixed emotions as our child let’s go of our hand and steps away from us. It can be both exciting and sad to see them growing up and away. It doesn’t come easy for most moms to do

Progressive Muscle Relaxation: Stress Management for Body Tension Reduction

2010-07-02T09:44:00.000-07:00

By Jeanette Griffin There are many methods for reducing stress. Progressive muscle relaxation is used for reducing overall body tension. So what is it? PMR is a tension-reducing technique that takes the participant through a sequence of tensing and relaxing of specific muscle groups. The participant begins with the muscles in the face, tensing all of these muscles and holding the tension to the

Emotional Eating: Its Cause and How to Control it

2010-06-28T08:38:00.000-07:00

By Jeanette Griffin Can you relate to this? It’s dinner hour and you’re already worn down from the day but you’ve got to get the kids fed before you have to rush out the door to get the kids soccer practice and karate class. You get the dinner on the table but the kids are fighting, the phone is ringing, and no one wants to sit down to eat. You grab a few quick bites as you clean up the mess and

Relieve Your Stress with Sex

2010-06-25T09:31:00.000-07:00

By Jeanette GriffinSex does lower stress. You have heard it here. I highly recommend sex for reducing stress but for many worn out moms sex can be one of the last things on your mind. New moms are not only dealing with being tired but it is quite common to have hormone levels interfere with the libido at this time. The man wants sex and the woman wants... Read more... Want to learn more about

What is a Comfort Zone and Are You Still Comfortable There?

2010-06-21T12:17:00.000-07:00

By Jeanette Griffin As mothers we are told how important it is to have routines. Routines help our children feel secure and keep the household running smoothly. They make for a less stressed life. We learn to trust these routines and feel that they help maintain sanity and balance in our lives. What I am about to tell you goes against all of those principles that you have heard up until now.

Not "Just a Mom"

2010-06-18T16:50:00.000-07:00

This was a story I read the other day and I wanted to share it with all of you marvelous SAHM out there. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. I would like to dedicate to all of you amazing SWAHM. By Author Unknown A woman named Emily renewing her driver's license at the County Clerk's office was asked by the woman recorder to state her occupation. She hesitated, uncertain how to classify

Practicing Mindful Parenting

2010-06-18T14:56:00.000-07:00

By Jeanette Griffin The relationship between a child and a parent can often include conversations that can leave a parent flustered and feeling as if they’re not being heard. You know the scenario where the child asks if they can have that certain toy as you’re rushing through the store and they keep asking and then it can result into a full blown tantrum. Or you know the one where you ask your

Change

2010-06-16T08:45:00.000-07:00

By Jeanette Griffin Do you find yourself wanting change but not knowing where to begin? Or maybe you find it hard to believe change is possible? For the most part, everyone wants change. We crave for change in the environment of the world in which we live and change in ourselves. It is a human condition to seek for what we don’t have and look for ways of acquiring it. Read more... Want to

Exercising Your Optimism

2010-06-15T13:00:00.000-07:00

By Jeanette Griffin As a parent, I know that I would much rather inspire and nurture the qualities of an optimist that sees life as a glass half full than a pessimist that sees the glass as half empty. It does seem easier for our minds to think about what might go wrong rather than what could go right. The purist form of optimism that I have ever witnessed is the optimism of a child. Read more.

Summers can be Stress-less

2010-06-09T10:54:00.000-07:00

By Jeanette Griffin Summer is meant to be a lazy, relaxed time. But for some family’s summer is the time for kids to be bored and moms to be stressed and overwhelmed by all of their family’s activities. In order to save your sanity and enjoy the extra family time you need to be present, prepared, pampered. The following are some ways to put some Zen into your summertime plans. Read more...

Do You Get Your 8 Hours?

2010-06-07T12:01:00.000-07:00

By Jeanette Griffin Busy moms have busy lives. Who has time for sleep, right? A good night’s rest is often one of the first things to go with the birth of a child. Lack of sleep is one of the mom job requirements. All of those middle of the night feedings, staying up late with sick kids, and those bad dream nights. A mom is also a multi-tasking machine. We try to get it all done before the day’s

Working Mom’s Guilt

2010-06-03T11:44:00.000-07:00

By Jeanette Griffin Do you ever feel a twinge of Working Mom guilt? Every working mom has experienced Working Mom guilt at some point or another. It can be heart wrenching to leave your little one in the hands of their daycare provider after prying their little hands from your leg while they are crying at the top of their lungs, “NO MOMMY DON’T GO!” This would cause any mom to feel like

Stop Wasting Your Time

2010-06-02T09:29:00.000-07:00

By Jeanette Griffin Life can get so cluttered with stuff, commitments and responsibilities that it becomes difficult to remember life without all of the stress of it. How often do you find yourself dreaming about a calm peaceful life without all of the chaos? If we could only push an easy button and a life without stress would appear. Read more... Want to learn more about managing stress

Tension Headaches

2010-06-01T08:59:00.000-07:00

By Jeanette Griffin Researchers had believed at one time that tension headaches were caused by built up tension in the muscles of the face and neck. New research has shown that stress is one of the leading causes for tension headaches. Stress causes fluctuations in the neurotransmitters of the brain the brain chemicals (serotonin and endorphins). They believe that this induces these types of

The Power of Gratitude Journaling

2010-05-22T20:13:00.000-07:00

By Jeanette Griffin As a busy mom, I know how easy it is to get caught up in the small stuff and get stuck there sometimes. Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff, an article by Richard Carlson, PhD, states that we should not "Ignore problems or pretend they do not exist.” One thing that I have found helpful to me when I begin to get too caught up in the trivial things in life is to find things to be

The 10 Minute Vacation

2010-05-19T15:30:00.000-07:00