Three truths to remember about your relationship with your kids.

We all strive for happiness in our lives. Here are three truths regarding happiness that may be hard to read, but are so important to understand.

Moms can feel less stress and more joy when they say "no" to the unimportant things, and "yes" to the most important things in these three areas.

Feel the fear, but keep moving forward

We can all benefit from group work as it deepens our growth in these three ways…

Moving forward also starts by investing in these three areas of our lives:

We can all experience self-compassion when we stop comparing and remember these three truths…

We can all feel less lonely when we stop comparing our lives to everybody else's highlight reels.

I grew up as the daughter of a Secret Service agent. Yup. You read that correctly. My dad was a Secret Service agent. Which meant my childhood was a little bit different than most: White House Christmas parties, President introductions, seeing my Dad on TV, the works.

We can all shift into freedom and joy when we acknowledge that our self-judgment is actually sabotaging us from living to the fullest.

Feedback helps us improve our performance. Good, constructive feedback helps us move closer to our goals.

We are not our mistakes, and if we stay stuck in them, we only have ourselves to blame.