How to Help Others Without Burning Out

How to Help Others Without Burning Out

This is part of an interview series with our certified Forward-Facingยฎ coaches. In this series, we'll take some time to get to know our coaches, how they found Forward-Facingยฎ and how they're using it in both the professional and personal lives. This post contains...

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How to Heal Yourself by Embracing the Present

How to Heal Yourself by Embracing the Present

This is part of an interview series with our certified Forward-Facingยฎ coaches. In this series, we'll take some time to get to know our coaches, how they found Forward-Facingยฎ and how they're using it in both the professional and personal lives. This post contains...

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Learning How to Choose Your Life

Learning How to Choose Your Life

This is the first of an upcoming interview series with our certified Forward-Facingยฎ coaches. In this series, we'll take some time to get to know our coaches, how they found Forward-Facingยฎ and how they're using it in both the professional and personal lives.ย This...

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In Spite of Us

Kids grow up in spite of us--unknown Within two hours of departure, itโ€™s obvious -- we have a different set of kids than last summerโ€™s trek to Colorado. Weโ€™re having fewer if any unannounced bathroom stops, our total elapsed stop time (TEST) is half of what it was a...

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The Power of Written Intention

The Power of Written Intention

The Power of Written Intention and the Noticing Brain The six of us have flown across the country into an Omicron hot-spot. And the one with severe travel anxiety and constant homesickness? No, he hasn't grown out of it. The older teens are quick to give us parenting...

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Co-regulation: a Parents’ Superpower

Co-regulation: a Parents’ Superpower

Seven years ago a little girl was deteriorating from a plethora of mysterious symptoms. The most highly trained physicians and clinicians had no name for her condition, which also meant no treatment. Her Mom tried everything and felt powerless to help her. Thatโ€™s...

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๐—œ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—Ÿ๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ดโ€ฆ๐—ช๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—œ๐˜€ ๐—œ๐˜ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ช๐—ต๐˜† ๐—ฑ๐—ผ๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—œ๐˜ ๐— ๐—ฎ๐˜๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ?

๐—œ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—Ÿ๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ดโ€ฆ๐—ช๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—œ๐˜€ ๐—œ๐˜ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ช๐—ต๐˜† ๐—ฑ๐—ผ๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—œ๐˜ ๐— ๐—ฎ๐˜๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ?

๐—œ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—Ÿ๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ดโ€ฆ๐—ช๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—œ๐˜€ ๐—œ๐˜ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ช๐—ต๐˜† ๐—ฑ๐—ผ๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—œ๐˜ ๐— ๐—ฎ๐˜๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ? Intentional living means understanding your fundamental beliefs and values and then actively living your life in line with those values. Tapping into those values daily is the difference between living life on...

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I Float Back…

I Float Back…

Iโ€™m floating down the river on my daughterโ€™s 14th birthday. Why am I so excited to be leading this group of teens? Why am I so happy? I float back... For as long as I remember, teens have felt like foreign creatures. Not foreign like โ€œthese kids have weird style and...

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I Failed Creating This Book

I Failed Creating This Book

Our book Forward-Facingยฎ Freedom is completed. For me itโ€™s reaching a developmental milestone, checking my first book project off my bucket list. As I was wondering what to share, I thought โ€œoh, I donโ€™t want to make it about me.โ€ But as I pondered further, I realized...

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From Strangers to Safety

From Strangers to Safety

From Strangers to Safety Jenny's experience in Forward-Facing Me I wrote this reflection in 2018, back when Eric Gentry was a relative stranger and I was just beginning my journey with self-regulation and intentionality. Since then I've had the privilegeย to lead...

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National Daughter’s Day…

National Daughter’s Day…

National Daughter's Day... What a privilege to be an instrument of generational change. With each milestone and opportunity they experience that I was deprived of, I'm grateful for the resilience that gives me freedom and joy to escort them through these stages. Girls...

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What does it mean to live for 16 years in one home?

What does it mean to live for 16 years in one home?

Our Dobson Ranch home of 16 years closed today in the smoothest transaction we could asked for. Here is a Jenny-style reflection of 16 years of "Place". What does it mean to live for 16 years in one home? I moved a lot as a kid -- 10 times between 6 and 16, so Iโ€™ve...

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The Voice Box

The Voice Box

No-Talk Rule - This foundational dysfunctional family rule demands children never tell the truth to outsiders and never speak up to their abusers. Blurry shapes floated in and out as I lay on the operating table trying to wake up. The smell of antiseptic burned my...

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