Marlene Dillon Empowerment Specialist

Intentions & Fears

Anxiety can be crippling. Where does it come from? For me anxiety presents itself as thoughts that my body immediately reacts to with panic. I was thinking today, what are the thoughts and memories that lead to anxiety? What are the main 3 ways it presents itself to me? 1) You’re doing it wrong. Don’tContinue reading “Intentions & Fears”

Healing the Parent-Child Relationship

I developed and published an online communication course for parents to help them restore/maintain connection with their children. Wow! As a neurodivergent human, who struggles with executive dysfunction, I needed to remember what a huge undertaking that was for me. And how I successfully pulled it off despite the challenges. I’m super proud of myself.Continue reading “Healing the Parent-Child Relationship”

Where Focus Goes

“I care about how I feel so I choose to care about where I focus my attention.” —Marlene Dillon Empowerment Specialist We often don’t pay attention to why we feel the way we do. It’s usually our thoughts about what we’re thinking about that cause shifts in our moods. So people we see as moodyContinue reading “Where Focus Goes”

Single on Valentine’s Day

To all my I-would-celebrate-it-if-I-was-in-a-relationship friends, I am wishing you (and me) a Happy Valentine’s Day! I think the blessing of 1) having a birthday the day after Valentine’s Day AND 2) having been coupled but unhappy, I don’t take this day hard anymore. I used to. One thing that I know for sure is thatContinue reading “Single on Valentine’s Day”