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"If You Care So Much, Why Don't YOU Take the Immigrants In?"
I’ve been watching and listening carefully the past few weeks as debate over immigration in America has heated up and caught afire. I’ve...
Carrie Helmers
Jun 27, 20184 min read


I'll Be Happy If YOU'RE Happy (No Pressure!)
Do you like to make people happy? I do! I love to do nice things for people! It makes me feel valuable and worthy. I get pumped up...
Carrie Helmers
May 1, 20184 min read


The Real Reason Many of Us Don't Feel Accepted
If I’ve spent my life trying to be accepted, why have I never felt accepted? As it turns out, it appears as if I’ve been making a giant...
Carrie Helmers
Jan 10, 20184 min read


Maybe the Key to Success is Closing Our Mouths
Have you ever wondered why Oprah is so rich and successful? Oprah Winfrey is known around the world as a thought leader and brilliant...
Carrie Helmers
Dec 4, 20173 min read


Is Control a Good Thing?
“Do you like where you keep your checkbook?” I asked my husband as I idly stirred some pasta on the stove. “I’m going to organize the...
Carrie Helmers
Aug 29, 20174 min read


Rocky Horror Dinner Show
It’s Monday night. After an hour and a half of chopping, boiling and grilling (spaced in between missing-toy-train-reconnaissance...
Carrie Helmers
Jan 5, 20164 min read


Time to Plug Myself In
It was 12:45 a.m., and my husband, Lancelot, and I were stuck in the Charlotte airport. Our flight to Dayton had been cancelled and we...
Carrie Helmers
Dec 17, 20154 min read


Four Steps Ahead
I’m a planner. I’m a planner by nature, by necessity and even by profession, having planned and executed several fundraisers and events...
Carrie Helmers
Dec 14, 20154 min read


Is People-Pleasing a Fault?
I was recently reading a book by Gary Zukav, “Soul to Soul,” and I came across a few interesting passages about people-pleasing. In the...
Carrie Helmers
Nov 19, 20153 min read


7 Things I'm Doing (and One Thing I'm NOT) to Control My Own Christmas
Christmas is 45 days away. Does that news give you an anxiety attack, or fill you with peace and goodwill toward men? I doubt this is the...
Carrie Helmers
Nov 10, 20155 min read


The Bad Guy Drill
I was holding my five-year-old son’s hand in his school’s parking lot yesterday afternoon when he casually pointed to the sidewalk....
Carrie Helmers
Nov 3, 20153 min read


2 Words That Instantly Invalidate
Seeing my firstborn son smile for the first time was one of moments in my life I will never forget. It filled me with indescribable awe...
Carrie Helmers
Oct 22, 20154 min read


What Type of -ist Are You?
You know the classic question – is the glass half full, or half empty? Your answer determines your outlook on life. See the glass as half...
Carrie Helmers
Oct 20, 20153 min read
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