Tag: Encouragement

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6 Things My Teenager Needs Amidst 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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What is it they need from us and what is important for us keep focusing on or not let fall by the wayside?   Adolescence. Whew. Big deep breaths. Isn’t it good to be on the other side of it as adults? Thinking back to those turbulent years makes a lot of us squirm or […]

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For the Girls: What Your Daughter Needs Most

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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Ultimately, we want all of our children to keep growing, learning, and maturing until they are fully functioning and healthy adults. This is possible, even as we make countless mistakes as parents or have to usher our sweet girls through inevitable hardships.   For whatever reason, I always thought we would have daughters. There were […]

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How To Please Everyone

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 may not be able to please everyone at all times, but you can do everything with love and compassion. Here are some tidbits, practices, and loose rules for considering yourself, your co-parent, and your children when the complications of divorce and single parenting get extra tricky.   As a therapist, one of my fundamental […]

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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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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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