This is probably one of the most difficult challenges any parent could face - learning to love the other parent enough to make the children first.

Parents are teachers, guides, leaders, protectors and providers for their children.

Whether at work, at home or in public, we have been trained to believe that who we are at the core of our being is often unacceptable. As a result, we work diligently to live up to - and sometimes down to - what others have made us out to be, whether or not it is an accurate reflection of who we are.

For some reason,we keep forgetting some of our experience. We look back but don't bring the value forward. We bring the anger, the upset. We bring the fear.

The only energy that has any power in your life is the gift of breath from God.

Sooner or later, we must all accept the fact that in a relationship, the only person you are dealing with is yourself.

I gave myself permission to feel and experience all of my emotions. In order to do that, I had to stop being afraid to feel. In order to do that, I taught myself to believe that no matter what I felt or what happened when I felt it, I would be okay.