Month: September 2017

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The Importance of Empathy

April Moseley
April Moseley
April is a Marriage and Family Therapist with a background in youth and campus ministry. She’s an avid reader, an occasional baker, and a lover of words and people. She enjoys continuously learning and sharing on emotional health, spiritual growth, and safe places to land. April lives in Nashville with her husband Josh and their son Jude.
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Why helping your child feel understood is almost as good as a magic wand for the pain. It just takes a little work on our parts! Do you ever have one of those weeks where being a parent just breaks your heart? I was having one last week. My son is in physical therapy trying […]

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Boundaries: Questions to ask for Your Child of Divorce

April Moseley
April Moseley
April is a Marriage and Family Therapist with a background in youth and campus ministry. She’s an avid reader, an occasional baker, and a lover of words and people. She enjoys continuously learning and sharing on emotional health, spiritual growth, and safe places to land. April lives in Nashville with her husband Josh and their son Jude.
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It’s time to make progress on one of the most common issues plaguing all children of divorce: boundaries. This particular topic is one in which we are going to go exploring together. I’m not going to sit behind my computer and pretend I have all the answers. I just know there’s a problem. It’s also […]

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The Grief Cycle and Your Child

April Moseley
April Moseley
April is a Marriage and Family Therapist with a background in youth and campus ministry. She’s an avid reader, an occasional baker, and a lover of words and people. She enjoys continuously learning and sharing on emotional health, spiritual growth, and safe places to land. April lives in Nashville with her husband Josh and their son Jude.
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Understanding how your child is grieving and why it looks different from other kids can help you help your child thrive again. Just this week, I was struggling with an issue with my little boy. I called a friend and told her I was sad about a report I’d gotten and told her I was […]

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The Co-Parenting Tango

April Moseley
April Moseley
April is a Marriage and Family Therapist with a background in youth and campus ministry. She’s an avid reader, an occasional baker, and a lover of words and people. She enjoys continuously learning and sharing on emotional health, spiritual growth, and safe places to land. April lives in Nashville with her husband Josh and their son Jude.
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Why learning a new dance with your child’s other parent is essential for their development. We all know the saying: “It takes two to tango, but you’re divorced from your old tango partner. Yet, you’re still parenting your children with them. Or at least, your children need you to be. So, how do you continue […]

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The Messy Middle

April Moseley
April Moseley
April is a Marriage and Family Therapist with a background in youth and campus ministry. She’s an avid reader, an occasional baker, and a lover of words and people. She enjoys continuously learning and sharing on emotional health, spiritual growth, and safe places to land. April lives in Nashville with her husband Josh and their son Jude.
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The bravest thing you can do for yourself and for your kids today is just pick yourself up and keep going. Today I read a post from one of my favorite authors about the messy middle. You know the middle I’m talking about. You’re in it and so are your kids. It’s not the beginning […]

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Top 9 Parental Interventions to Ease Your Child’s Anxiety

April Moseley
April Moseley
April is a Marriage and Family Therapist with a background in youth and campus ministry. She’s an avid reader, an occasional baker, and a lover of words and people. She enjoys continuously learning and sharing on emotional health, spiritual growth, and safe places to land. April lives in Nashville with her husband Josh and their son Jude.
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You’ve never had to be an expert on childhood anxiety before! Here’s a quick guide for beginning the process of helping your child. Recently, we posted a blog about the warning signs of childhood anxiety. For many of you, it may have been eye-opening and helpful just to be able to name what’s going on […]

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25 Ways to Improve Communication with Your Kids TODAY

April Moseley
April Moseley
April is a Marriage and Family Therapist with a background in youth and campus ministry. She’s an avid reader, an occasional baker, and a lover of words and people. She enjoys continuously learning and sharing on emotional health, spiritual growth, and safe places to land. April lives in Nashville with her husband Josh and their son Jude.
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How to begin a lifestyle of talking with your children that changes relationships and lives for the better! I was about 15 years old when my last of three older brothers and stepbrothers left home. So, my primary residence for the first time in my life was made up of me, my mom, and my […]

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The Loyalty Crisis

April Moseley
April Moseley
April is a Marriage and Family Therapist with a background in youth and campus ministry. She’s an avid reader, an occasional baker, and a lover of words and people. She enjoys continuously learning and sharing on emotional health, spiritual growth, and safe places to land. April lives in Nashville with her husband Josh and their son Jude.
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Why choosing sides is for sporting competitions and war, not parenting. He said, “To this day, I still hate making decisions. I have to think about how it could affect my family and how it could look to one parent if I make this decision.” This from a male, in his thirties, decades since the […]

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A Letter of Encouragement to the Unconventional Parent

April Moseley
April Moseley
April is a Marriage and Family Therapist with a background in youth and campus ministry. She’s an avid reader, an occasional baker, and a lover of words and people. She enjoys continuously learning and sharing on emotional health, spiritual growth, and safe places to land. April lives in Nashville with her husband Josh and their son Jude.
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No matter your title or marital status, we’re in this with you. It occurred to me recently that we address many of our blogs as if both parents are still engaged in a relationship with the child, still both parenting, just separately now. Then, it occurred to me that while that is ideal for a […]

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The Importance of Parental Community

April Moseley
April Moseley
April is a Marriage and Family Therapist with a background in youth and campus ministry. She’s an avid reader, an occasional baker, and a lover of words and people. She enjoys continuously learning and sharing on emotional health, spiritual growth, and safe places to land. April lives in Nashville with her husband Josh and their son Jude.
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How vulnerability and honesty with a few good friends changes our parenting for the better. I was having one of those weeks. Parenting felt really challenging. I felt unbelievably exhausted, spent, and frustrated. It was only Wednesday. After a few tears and a bit of a mom breakdown, I got away for a little bit […]

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