Here’s my Dare To Love Yourself Challenge Video Day 2 – I share with you my “This Too Shall Pass” Moment:

I have tried affirmations in the past without a huge shift – but I never did stick to it every day for 3 weeks. When I do them I feel like I am lying sometimes. When I’m not in a good mood I can’t possibly believe that many of those phrases could ever be possible.

A friend of mine on Facebook, Nancy Barry-Jansson has taught hundreds of people how to get the most from affirmations and is a coach. Her comment to my Day 1 Challenge video yesterday was “Be kind to yourself, Andrea. If affirmations were *true* you wouldn’t benefit from saying them ~feeling like a stretch means they will stretch your consciousness (if you stick with them). If they are too much of a stretch, you can baby-step them.” The part I bolded really helped me feel better.

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“Families don’t need martyrs, they need mothers. You have to take care of yourself first, so you have something to give. You can’t give what you don’t have.” Dr. Phil

This quote was posted by a friend of mine who is taking the Dare To Love Yourself Challenge with me.

Here’s a few videos I recorded, will try to Vlog every day of the Challenge!! =)

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I wish that my parents would have been able to read a copy of this book, when I was a little girl. I am absolutely positive if they would have been able to parent in this manner, treat themselves and each other with unconditional love, that all of our lives would have been better by miles.

I know they did the best they could. But if they’d had these tools (what the Beyond Consequences Institute teaches) I know there would have been a lot less darkness, heartache and loss in our lives.

I have attended four of Heather’s in person events this year:

1. “Beyond Consequences Live” – free with a copy of any of her 3 books in November

2. “Every Day is Mothers Day” – A healing conference just for moms – twice; once in May & once in October

3. “Intensive 2 Day Training” – for parents and professionals, in July [Read more →]

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This past week, I helped Heather Forbes, LCSW put on a webinar titled “I’m the One Who Needs the Time-Out!” so I was really busy with that and the online classes we did and didn’t have time for an in depth blog post here.

I wanted to say that we had over 1,100 parents sign up for this online class in just a week of prep for it.

Almost half showed up live and they were very interested in what she had to say.

The response was amazing, and it just shows what a need there is for the information that Heather is getting out there. I am really glad to be a part of her team, because I know that I am helping to make a huge difference in people’s lives and in the generations to come.

I am very excited to be going to her Mom’s Conference in Denver as a facilitator next month. Going to this event changed my life and I was able to heal deep abandonment issues I’d stuffed and suffered from since I was a child. Join me if you need a change in your life, in your family – it starts with your own healing. Read more about my healing experience.

Are you with me?

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Do you ever find yourself overreacting to your child’s behavior? Do you sometimes find yourself at your brink, not understanding how you could have moved from a place of pure love and joy to absolute frustration and intolerance?

Parenting is the hardest job–ever! Our children can move us to a whole new level within ourselves, especially children with traumatic histories. They have a way of challenging us like no one else on this planet could ever do.

Listen in on this webinar with Heather T. Forbes, LCSW to discover why these dynamics are happening within you. You aren’t going crazy! There is a reason for these intense feelings and she will bring to you a new understanding to settle your heart and mind. As an adoptive mother herself, she knows first hand how it feels to be the one who needs a time-out more than your child! Heather will also share some of her own personal story of healing that will inspire you and help you embrace each moment with your child.

Space is limited – Choose which date and time works best for you:

Reserve your Webinar seat for September 16th, 2009 at 9:30pm MDT now:
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/723306186

Reserve your Webinar seat for September 21st, 2009 at 7:30pm MDT now:
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/265332339

(These are exactly the same, delivered on different days/times for your convenience.) After registering for the day/time of your choice, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.

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Online Parenting Class Testimonial

“My husband Reed and I are parents of Courtney, age 10, adopted from Belarus at age 12 months.  I’ve been familiar with the Beyond Consequences Institute parenting paradigm for about a year, but it didn’t really click until I attended a BCI Live presentation last spring.  There’s nothing like seeing this method in action and actually being able to role play scenarios that might happen with your child.

The on-line parenting classes provide this same opportunity — on a weekly basis!  I was very anxious and dysregulated about the new school year, so I decided to enroll in the on-line class right before school started.

That decision is one of the best I’ve ever made.

For the first time, I went to the school armed with techniques for use by both the classroom teacher and special school district teachers.

I finally felt like the expert on my own child! 

These extremely cost-effective parenting classes are worth every penny and moment of your time.”

Brenda Murphy-Niederkorn

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“When you seek to change your child, you must look within yourself first to see what it is in you that needs to be changed.

Healing through relationships is a reciprocal process and you, as the parent, need to take the lead in spearheading the movement.” Heather Forbes, LCSW

I got an email this week from one of our students that I wanted to share as well as my response…

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By June Ebell

Heather and Andrea,

At the beginning I was skeptical about the Beyond Consequences method.

I believe there is no “magic wand” that you can wave, and everything is roses (with no thorns).
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Online Parenting Class Testimonial from Margie & Rick Magar

- Tell us a little about yourself

We are Christian parents of a 15-year-old birth-daughter who we have
home schooled for 9 years. We felt God’s call in our hearts this past
November (2008) to adopt a child from the US Foster Care system. We are
currently waiting to hear back on a potential match. [Read more →]

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Online Parenting Class Testimonial from Karen Adams, Beyond Consequences Instructor

- Tell us a little about yourself

I am a bio mom of adult kids, a former special needs and therapeutic foster parent, and a new adoptive mom. I am choosing to adopt children from US foster care that are already “labeled” with diagnoses including RAD, PTSD, ADHD, FAS, Mental Retardation, Adjustment Disorder of Childhood. [Read more →]

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