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Just The Tip Of The Iceberg

February 21, 2017 by not your average mom 1 Comment

If you know anything about an iceberg, then you know the part that you see above the water is just a small fraction of it. The majority of the iceberg is underwater. Hence the saying, the tip of the iceberg. This is especially true with your kids. If they are demonstrating a certain behavior that […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Mental Health, Parenting Tagged With: behavior, challenge, fires, goals, iceberg, jane nelson, mistaken beliefs, positive discipline, tool cards

21 days to establish a new habit, right? WRONG!

January 1, 2017 by not your average mom 1 Comment

We’ve all seen that quote — So that’s just three weeks. Right? Wrong! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!!! That quote — the one that says it takes 21 days to form a new habit — is actually kind of a misquote. A quote that has mutated. Back in the 1950’s, a plastic surgeon named Maxwell Maltz noticed a […]

Filed Under: Exercise, Lessons I've Learned, Mental Health, Self Care, Sound Mind Sound Body Tagged With: couch, dining room, dinner, eating, goal, goals, habit, habits, New Years, Resolutions, television

Sometimes you are the role model for your kids. Other times, they are the role model for you.

December 26, 2016 by not your average mom 1 Comment

I have spent the past few months feeling like this panda. I haven’t completely stopped exercising or anything, but I also haven’t been training for any marathons or races, I’m coming out of a fairly significant bout of depression, and I’ve dealt with that and the stress of other stuff by eating. And eating. And […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: Christmas, December, depression, goals, inspiration, motivation, Number 4, panda, weight loss

So let it be written.

March 4, 2015 by not your average mom 7 Comments

I don’t have extravagant tastes. I’m not super concerned with keeping up with the Joneses or having the best of everything. I mean, I went to school to be a teacher, after all. But you know what? I’m sick and tired of worrying about money. Constantly. It’s fucking exhausting. And it’s not fun. And, well, […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: goal setting, goals

The greatest glory lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

February 26, 2013 by not your average mom 2 Comments

Yesterday I was exhausted. Worse than usual. I woke up thinking that maybe I should throw in the Lose to Win towel. Every single part of my body is sore. My house is a shithole. And I feel like I am missing out on time with my kids. But I managed to drag my ass […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: goals, Lose to Win, muhammad ali

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