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Happiness At Home: Managing Difficult Life Transitions

Andrea Ramsay Speers
anxiety, depression, happy families, mental health, newsletter, stress
Life is a process of beginnings and endings. In both life and nature, there are times when things move slowly and don’t seem to change very much. Then, suddenly, things change [...]
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Happiness At Home Newsletter: Take Charge Of Your Life

Andrea Ramsay Speers
mental health, newsletter, Pet Peeves, self esteem, stress
Goals are good for your physical and mental health. Looking to set some new goals for the rest of the year? Here are a few ideas to get you started: Career Learning Clubs [...]
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10Feb

Family Meeting How-To’s

Andrea Ramsay Speers
chores, communication, gratitude, happy families, keeping kids out of trouble, nagging, parenting, Pet Peeves, stress, teens, tweens
Family meetings can be one of your best discipline strategies as a parent. Here’s what your kids learn from participating in family meetings:  Listening skills   Brainstorming [...]
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Happiness At Home: How People Change

Andrea Ramsay Speers
mental health, newsletter, stress
What Is Happiness? If you are thinking about changing your life for the better, one way to start is by identifying your goals. You are probably hoping to find some version of [...]
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Time To Think

Andrea Ramsay Speers
communication, happy families, nagging, parenting, Pet Peeves, teens, tweens
In the daily grind of making lunches, arriving on time, homework, and all of the other activities that fill our days, it can be easy to lose sight of our big-picture parenting [...]
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Problem Solving

Andrea Ramsay Speers
communication, couples, happy families, nagging, parenting, Pet Peeves, school, teens, tweens
Good communication is important in a family, but we can get stuck when we’ve shared what our issues are, and the person we’re sharing with has a different view.  [...]
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Happiness At Home: How To Balance Work And Family Life

Andrea Ramsay Speers
depression, happy families, mental health, newsletter, stress, Uncategorised
What Is Your Definition of Success? If you want to create balance in your life, it is important to know how you define success. The following list is a place to start. Cross [...]
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Is Fear Ruling Your Life?

Andrea Ramsay Speers
anxiety, mental health, self esteem, stress
How does fear impact your day-to-day life?  Not at all?  Lucky you!  The rest of us can recognize fear at work in some part of our life every day – from the constant, [...]
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Doing What Works (And Quitting What Doesn’t)

Andrea Ramsay Speers
chores, communication, happy families, marriage, nagging, parenting, Pet Peeves, school, stress, teens, tweens
People have a tendency to think that if something should work, but it doesn’t, that the next step is to then do that thing harder, more often or more intensely.  (For example, [...]
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Happiness At Home: Parenting Your Teen With Less Stress

Andrea Ramsay Speers
communication, depression, keeping kids out of trouble, newsletter, parenting, self esteem, teens, tweens
How to Maintain Communication Even though teens need to separate from their parents during adolescence, they also need to know that the safety net of home and family is always [...]
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