Posts from — September 2009

Convert difficulties into opportunities, for difficultie are divine surgeries to make you better.  - Author Unknown

I am giving away 10 copies of my book Jackie Stanley’s Dictionary of Encouragement:  A Reassuring Guide to Defining Who You Are and How You Are Going to Live Your Life. 

This dictionary was designed to assist you when you need help with the challenges and difficulties of everyday life.  You can use this dictionary to define who you are in terms that empower you and your circumstances in ways that will allow you to transcend them.  

Each entry in this dictionary is defined in a way that will reassure you, incorporated in a sentence that will support you, or cited in a quotation that will encourage you.

How do you get your free copy?  

Leave a comment under this post or shoot me an email.

I loved this book because I love stories about families that despite their individual flaws and collective dysfunction fight to stay connected and  that continue forgiving each other for being human.

When life gives you a lemon, please, just don’t squirt it in other people’s eyes.  — J. Andrew Helt

This is a very important question.

Your children are counting on you to get the answer right.

Few parents get it right the first time, but keeping asking until you do.

Because if you never get it right, then your children may suffer the consequences of  your answer.

Breaking-Up, Getting Paid and Moving On!  That’s the name of the free workshop that I will be facilitating at the Women’s Resource Center in Greensboro, NC.

Tuesdays:  October 6th, October 13th and October 20th 

 5:30 pm - 7 pm

Registration is required:  275 - 6090

The effect upon children, and your relationship with them, can often be the most painful and long-lasting aspect of divorce.  Your family life will be permanently changed, as there will no longer be the “family.” 

Even if you remarry, step-parents rarely bring back that same family feeling.

Your relationship with your children may become strained as they work through their feelings of blame, guilt, disappointment and anger.  The strain may continue for many years. 

Your children may even need professional counseling.  It is your job to make sure they get it everything they need to get through this process.

The legal system was designed to assist reasonable people in finding a  resolution to their reasonable disputes. 

The legal system was not designed to assist irrational people in exacting revenge on their ex’s.

Count the garden by the flowers, never by the leaves that fall.  Count your life with smiles and not the tears that roll.  — Unknown

Check out this article about a lady who is considering getting married for the 23rd time.  What do you think?