Real-life discussion, learnings and life lessons for real life parents, co-parents and stepparents and child influencers. The raw perspective of one woman who's been divorced once, married twice and is still learning what it means to be a parent while growing up (herself) and raising kids. Focused on creating a community of the parenting journey jumping in from adolescence, skipping over to teen and young adult where Stacy shares many stories of while single parenting, co-parenting and well, just plain old parenting for the last twenty-two years (and counting). The show is hosted and stories are shared from the life of Stacy Kehren Idema, an adult (sometimes), a mom (all the time) an imperfect person (every second) and last, but not least, a character strengths and parent coach (a.k.a.: life coach).
As a life long optimist; I thought gratitude just 'was' because I was optimistic to external world. But, my internal world was a hot mess. Minimizing ...
When everything you've accomplished and learned rattles around in your head instead of on paper, you undermine where you've been and what you overcome...
As a strength, leadership refers to the tendency to organize and encourage a group to get things done while maintaining good relations in the group. ....
Zest is about approaching life in general and situations with excitement and energy. Those full of zest are excited to get up in the morning and see t...
Perseverance: despite obstacles you finish what you start. You’re hardworking and you organize self to support the needed activities and when all else...
Empathy is about hearing others and truly listening and understanding their pain. Empathy is not, sympathizing or fixing a problem. Empathy is a meani...
Really, no one needs an internal devil and yet, we allow one to take shelter and hang out like it was a best friend You speak to yourself worse than y...
So I judged myself hard, why not? Easier to judge self than to have other judge me. Yet, I also assumed others judged me. Then again, sometimes they d...
I wished and hoped through many years of my life. Hope, as a strength. Hope can look like many things. A couple of examples: 1. Setting a long list of...
When someone says to you, you don't do that well, go to it better. What do you feel? What do you say? Getting better at something is almost always des...