Month: October 2017

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What Your Child Needs Within the First Six Months 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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Predictability would be nice, but unconditional love and compassion is even better.   There is a writer and illustrator whose work I have been following for the last several months. It is simple work yet it speaks great volumes, especially about what is going on in our hearts. I love when art has a way […]

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It’s Not Their Fault

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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A crash course for helping every kid who thinks your relationship success or failure might be their fault.   The Blame Game. It’s all your fault. It’s all his fault. It’s all her fault. Pointing fingers.   It is possible that there has been a lot of this going on in your household behind closed […]

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3 Tips for Our Children’s Future Relationship Success

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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What to do with the worry your kids won’t have healthy relationships and how to set them up to succeed as they go.   In the span of two hours this morning, I felt the whole spectrum of emotions with a handful of friends. One friend told me they had been sent a referral for […]

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Guidelines for Dating my Parents

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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If you’re ready for that next step in risking love again, there’s new rules in the game with kids involved.   My parents were divorced almost thirty years ago. My mom remarried when I was three, before I have any conscious memories and my dad remarried when I was seven, so many years ago that […]

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Blending Families

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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Blending families can be just as challenging as splitting them for everyone, but especially for the kids. Blending families can also result in a beautiful family with friendships and love that lasts through the ages, for everyone but especially for the kids.   My mom tells a few stories about when our big family first […]

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What to Tell My Kids: Balancing Boundaries, Openness, and Respect

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 is not a simple task to blend together boundaries with honesty and respect in delivering what may be some of the hardest news you have ever given your children. We believe in you and your family and that you specifically have what it takes to do this with as much grace as possible.   […]

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A Parent’s Unofficial Instruction Manual for Kids Swapping Houses

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 two house transition is tough for any kid, but in time, the new normal can feel like home too, even if it is two different houses and two sets of family to love.   “Get out your journals and draw a picture of your home,” the teacher says to a class full of six […]

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Resource Blog for the Divorced 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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Introducing a place for understanding your child and parenting well through divorce.   By now, hopefully you are starting to get a feel for us here at What About Me. I hope, oh how I really hope, that you are getting a clear picture of the heart behind what we do here. I also hope […]

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Developmental Guide: Quick Tidbits of Normal Development in an Emotional Whirlwind

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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A look at a few logical things about child development, a guide of sorts, to hopefully help us all know if what our kids are experiencing is normal or not.   It is 11:30 am on a Monday morning, and I am in tears in a parking lot.   I have work to do, an […]

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Let’s Get Talking

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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Neuroscience continually points back to this truth more and more all the time: our bodies and brains are literally wired for connection with others. Perhaps by strengthening our relationship with our children first and then helping them connect with others, we are giving our children gifts that they will see the fruits of for all […]

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