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Toxic Mom Toolkit – Mending Hearts – Community Volunteering
May I share with you my syllabus for volunteering in the community? I’m planning to visit my local childrens’ home with Toxic Mom Toolkit friends to teach sewing & mending to children the week...
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TOXIC MOM TOOLKIT: WHEN FOUR ACES IS A LOSING HAND
If you follow my Toxic Mom Toolkit Facebook page you know that I have finished the first draft of my book and that I’m editing chapters. I was thinking how valuable this chapter is and thought I’d put...
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TOXIC MOM TOOLKIT FOLLOWERS GATHER NEWS ARTICLES YOU CAN USE
One of the best things about Toxic Mom Toolkit on Facebook is the global reach and depth. Women all over the world are checking in, offering wisdom and support and forwarding interesting and helpful...
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Toxic Mom Toolkit: Thoughts While Editing – Time is Short
I always wanted to write a book. In grade school I carried around small leather-bound classics hoping I’d impress my teachers and schoolmates. I wanted them to think that I understood Dickens and Twain...
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TOXIC MOM TOOLKIT SYNONYM FOR LOVE: BACON
I was sitting on a café patio with a good friend. We were enjoying iced teas on a hot day. This friend has been super supportive of my Toxic Mom Toolkit work and has had periods in her life when she...
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Ten Reasons Adult Daughters Stay Connected to Toxic Mothers
Some adult daughters… Feel that limiting contact or cutting off contact with their Toxic Mothers will somehow reflect badly on them. They worry that others will wonder what’s wrong with them if they...
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Misery Defined: Toxic Mom Toolkit’s Top Five Tips for Surviving Seeing Your...
If you are planning an oft-delayed trip to see your mother after a long no contact period, remember – it’s never what you worry about. If you have had little or no contact with your Toxic Mother for...
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Toxic Mom Toolkit – The Book – Sneak Peek
Here is a sneak peek at a chapter from Toxic Mom Toolkit. The book is finished and I am beginning the process of figuring out how to get it published. CALL OUT THE GURKHAS Jen and I were having our...
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Five Tips To Save Your Siblings From Your Toxic Mom
So many adult daughters of very toxic mothers struggle with the challenge of blocking or breaking contact with their mothers at the risk of losing contact with their younger siblings. Yesterday, in the...
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Paris Calling Toxic Mom Toolkit
One night I was curled up on my couch with a book and my little old dog in my lap when my cell phone erupted.The caller I.D. simply gave what looked like 20 odd numbers in neon digits. Feeling brave I...
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Attack of the Toxic Mom Clones
I don’t know about you, but more often than I care to admit, I react to women of a certain age, who look a certain way, as if they were, in fact, my deceased mother. I was in church today and...
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The Happiness Plan for Adult Children of Toxic Parents
I receive a lot of nice mail. But, I can’t remember a more interesting or thought-provoking message in a long time. A Friend of Ours wrote: Hi Rayne, We spoke about 1.5 yrs. ago by telephone. I was a...
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Toxic Mom Toolkit: New and Improved Healing Affirmations
My friend Jen says affirmations are kind of dorky. I know what she means, but I’ve compiled a long list of my most often repeated thoughts that protect me from toxic mom fall-out. They could you last...
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Start the Presses!
I have been having so much fun with a new website called http://www.recitethis.com. It’s a very simple, FREE method for creating, crisp, clean, poster-style images, perfect for getting the word out...
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New & Improved 20 Questions
One of the very first things I did when I started writing Toxic Mom Toolkit was to design a brief questionnaire to help me collect real stories of growing up with a super toxic mother. Many of the...
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