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Welcome! I am so glad you are here!
Welcome! I am so glad you are here!
This website will provide you with new articles about family life, education, marriage, personal growth and about faith. The content is profound, practical, based on love. It honors you as a family and an individual, independently of your origin and social background. I will share with you the insights of my journey to be this successful woman, wife and mother. I enjoy my life with a deep gratefulness in my heart – and the aim is to share what I’ve learned with you. Come and join the thousands of readers from all over the world!
With love,
Jeanne from familythatmatters
This website will provide you with new articles about family life, education, marriage, personal growth and about faith. The content is profound, practical, based on love. It honors you as a family and an individual, independently of your origin and social background. I will share with you the insights of my journey to be this successful woman, wife and mother. I enjoy my life with a deep gratefulness in my heart – and the aim is to share what I’ve learned with you. Come and join the thousands of readers from all over the world!
With love,
Jeanne from familythatmatters
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Family life during the time of Covid-19
Here I am, back after several weeks in which I have not uploaded an article to this website.Since the beginning of this pandemic, I have realized how rich and diverse the whole subject of child education and family life has been covered. Wherever one looked, inputs,...
How to stay calm in testing times
Last week I received a voicemail from a friend in Seattle – we live 5000 miles apart, with a time difference of 8 hours. I was amazed however, how our lives look very similar right now. Both of us entered into the realm of home schooling our kids, our daily life is...
Let’s talk about Counterwill – and how it not only applies to Children
A few weeks ago, we were riding in the car as a family - I was driving. It was a sunny day and I forgot to turn on the lights. On the way to my destination, just before a roundabout, the car in front of me suddenly stopped. The driver (an elderly man) got out of the...
How do I get a child to obey if it does not want to – a practical Example
When I told a boy at our school's weekly collective lunch a few weeks ago to help me carry the table in, he ran away with the words : "Nah, I'm not in the mood!" At the moment I felt powerless and let another boy help me. Before the next collective lunch I thought...
Family – ways of transformation part 2
In the last article we looked at a grid that shows different family dynamics. This grid was developed by the authors of the book "Facing Shame - families in Recovery " to help families to enter the process of change The authors are therapists who work a lot with...
Family – ways of transformation
A few weeks ago, when I wrote an article on the subject of "Perfect families? Healthy and well-functioning families" , I set out the five freedoms that I believe are the basis for a healthy family. Then we looked at the dynamics of a family based on shame and its...
Family – ways of transformation part 2
In the last article we looked at a grid that shows different family dynamics. This grid was developed by the authors of the book "Facing Shame - families in Recovery " to help families to enter the process of change The authors are therapists who work a lot with...
Family – ways of transformation
A few weeks ago, when I wrote an article on the subject of "Perfect families? Healthy and well-functioning families" , I set out the five freedoms that I believe are the basis for a healthy family. Then we looked at the dynamics of a family based on shame and its...
Characteristics of a shame based family and how change can happen part 2
In the last article I described a family based on shame. I described what one can imagine by the word shame and how this shame can shape the dynamics of a family. A freely invented story should illustrate this dynamic:Once upon a time there was a traditional American...
Characteristics of a shame based family and how change can happen
Description of the term "family based on shame". A few weeks ago I wrote a paper on family for my 3-year counseling school. It was to be an essay about my personal path, and about what I had learned from the various readings. In the following articles, I will reflect...
Perfect families? Healthy and well functioning families!
Have you ever seen families that looked perfect from the outside? Families that radiate a pleasant atmosphere and a feeling of love, acceptance, respect and relaxation even when you get to know them better?We all know that there are no "perfect" families. And yet I...
3 Steps toward helping your wife to feel more close to you
Hey husbands, have you ever been in the situation, where you know, your wife is kind of distant, reserved toward you, but you don’t know exactly why? And even worse, you don’t know what to do about it. While she may simply be mad at you (ever had the situation where...
My Journey of the last decade and what I learned from it
There s a new article I recently published on my other website called "freedomthatmatters". You can read the article by visiting here or read it right here:
Reflecting the online webinar “making sense of troubled kids”
The other day, Benny told me: "Jeanne, I'm going to have some work to do for business tonight. This whole month will be very intense as we will be moving the business until the end of the year." I told him this was all right and I took care of the kids.hen Benny asked...
The secret of true freedom
There s a new article I recently published on my other website called "freedomthatmatters". You can read the article by visiting here or read it right here:
How we can create an environment in which our child can perceive its feelings
As mentioned in the last two articles (here and here) , I participated in a webinar - an online seminar - presented live from Canada. The speaker was Gordon Neufeld and the title was "Making Sense of Troubled Kids". Many insights, revelations and important information...