For a few weeks this past month I felt like my husband and I just weren’t “in the flow”.  Everything seemed difficult.  We were snappy with each other.  Little things which are usually easy, almost unconscious, seemed difficult.  I didn’t think either one of us was particularly happy to see the other.  Trying to discuss…

Posted by AmySanderMontanez at 3/23/2014 3:29 PM | Add Comment Picture yourself on a continuum.  On the far left is a state of self-contempt.  You do not have an accurate self-image.  You do not believe you are enough: good enough, smart enough, worthy enough, pretty enough, rich enough, whatever enough.  You have trouble knowing what…

Posted by AmySanderMontanez at 2/11/2014 11:46 AM | Add Comment Yes, you read that title correctly.  Embrace the dysfunction. This is one of the best pieces of holiday advice I can give you.  I am not talking about embracing pathological or destructive behavior.  I am talking about embracing normal, universal, our-family-is-nuts and I-can’t-believe-I-have-to-do-the-holidays-again kind of…