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  • When Love Becomes Dangerous

    1 in 4 women and 1 in 9 men experience severe intimate partner physical violence, intimate partner contact sexual violence, and/or intimate partner stalking SEVERE abuse…not just abuse. Every woman I know has been touched by intimate violence either in her own life, her family or her close friends…even if she doesn’t know it.

  • Hard Limits…with Love

    (Update of a 2016 post because I feel stagnant.) I hate the term “tough love” but I do think we have to learn to balance an open heart with a firm backbone. Setting limits with those we love can feel threatening or harsh or risky. Love can go to far on the acceptance scale, honoring and accepting what is not acceptable. Car seats are the best example of hard limits…