“I accept I am a human being before I am a parent.” “I accept I am trying my best, and that is good enough” “I accept I have limitations and many shortcomings, and that is okay.” I love these examples of affirmations by one of my favorite authors and experts in...

At Wholeheartmagic we are big believers in the psychological and spiritual benefits of gratitude and want all of our readers to experience them.  We feel that November is the perfect time to issue a challenge to ourselves and our readers to begin a gratitude practice....

In the summer of 2011, the day before my birthday, I was living with my handsome new husband, in our new home, teaching relationship classes at a local non-profit. Life was good.  But as I sat at the computer about to write a post on my personal blog at the time, my...