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Pat Brill's Articles in General Self Help

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  • 5 Essentials to Building a Spiritual Home
    Building a spiritual home is a top consideration for most parents today. No matter what your religious orientation is, or even if you have one, you want to raise children with a strong sense of morals and a feeling of hope and being connected to something larger than themselves.
  • Six Ways to Sneak Health Food into Your Child’s Diet
    If you’re tired of your child’s dietary battles turning into tactical missions and survival-of-the-fittest lessons (or survival of the most stubborn), we’ve got six sneaky ways for you to trick your child into eating health food that you’re absolutely going to love.
  • Three Reasons Why You Should Never Degrade Your Child
    Have you ever gotten mad at your child? Be honest. No one can answer that question with a “no” and really mean it. When you’ve gotten angry, have you said things you didn’t necessarily mean? Things that may have been hurtful and degrading?
  • Are Your Habits Controlling You? How to Add More Joy Into Your Life With Small Changes
    Is your life ok, not terrible, though it seems flat? Are you wondering if anything different is going to happen? You get up each day performing what needs to be done and yet at the end of the day you can’t help but wonder if there’s something else you can do with your life. If so, your habits are controlling you.
  • Is Your Weight Issue Controlling You? How to Add More Joy into Your Life with Small Changes
    When you look at yourself in the mirror, do you cringe, or just cover up the mirror? You may hear the statistics, know that you don’t feel physically well by having this extra weight, yet you aren’t able to move forward to make any changes. It feels overwhelming to handle both your extra weight and the negative thoughts you have every time you have to look at your body. What if you were to look at the situation differently?
  • How to Recover From Holiday Spending and Prepare for Next Year
    Despite our resolve to “spend less next year,” most of us overspend during the holiday season. Perhaps it’s the twinkling lights that distract us from our bank balance, or the sugar high that makes us open our wallets with no thought to next year’s finance charges.
  • How To Reconnect With Your Partner Through Taking Classes
    When was the last time you really felt connected with your partner? You know, that feeling that you share something special between the two of you? How about the last time you and your partner had a really good time together, just the two of you?
  • The Pitfalls of Over-Scheduling Your Child
    It’s no secret that American children have jam-packed schedules and expectations that most adults never had to deal with. But you might be surprised to learn that many children carry around a PDA to store schedules and contact information, and a cell phone to stay connected to parents who may be at work or attending a sibling’s scheduled event.
  • Mother’s Day Resolutions: A New Tradition
    While the dawning of a new year challenges us to look at every aspect of our lives, Mother’s Day is about one thing: mothers. Why not use the annual tradition of honoring mothers to set a few resolutions that nurture you, nurture your own mother, and nurture your relationship with your children?
  • Simple Children’s Garden
    What better way to encourage your kids to eat vegetables than to plant a vegetable garden? Children will learn about where their food comes from, how seeds sprout, and how plants grow. They will do some work planting, weeding and harvesting and a lot of healthy playing. They will get a little dirty, and that's all to the good.
  • Round-Robin Mealtime
    Structuring the conversation, especially with children at the table, can be a bit tricky sometimes, and that’s where the idea of the Round-Robin Mealtime comes in. Prepare to be amazed at the simplicity of it all.
  • Live With Passion – Do What You Love
    Imagine the pride you would feel as a parent if you knew your children were involved in careers that really brought them joy. If you knew that they were involved in something that made them love getting up and working every day, that challenged them and filled their days with excitement and wonder. Wouldn’t that be amazing?
  • The Maze of Family Finances
    The family finance game no longer just entails paying the mortgage and other bills each month. With budget planning, college and vacation savings, and making smart investments, knowing the ins and outs of your financial situation is vital for a healthy home and a healthy future.
  • Great Gifts for Grads
    Ah, graduation. Remember that soaring feeling of freedom? That excitement of stepping out into a whole new world of choices and decisions, all made by you? There’s no doubt that graduation, whether it be from high school, college, or grad school, is a wonderful milestone in life.
  • Interesting Ways to Display Your Favorite Photos
    Photos of family and friends add warmth and personality to our homes. The more public the photo display, the more creative you need to be to exhibit your treasures.
  • Be a Food Shopping Organizer
    Have you ever gone shopping and then at home you realized that you forgot something. This happens ever day by thousands of people so you are not alone. Did you forget to take your coupons or didn't give them to the cashier at checkout? It's now time to focus your organizational skills on your grocery shopping and keep the money in your pocket. Here are ideas to support you on this road.
  • 3 Ways to Eliminate Holiday Stress
    Holiday stress is definitely a popular subject. Over the years, I have absorbed stress during the holidays with juggling children, family, cooking, working, shopping, and on top of it all trying to be creative with my gift ideas. I'm a woman and women always take the lion's share of holiday stress. Women believe that they have to do it all. They don't!
  • Kick the Procrastination Habit in 4 Easy Steps
    When you create a "procrastination" habit, you reduce your ability to function effectively. This habit is controlling you and can be a hard habit to break. If you believe that procrastination is an issue in your life, what would it look like to no longer choose to resist doing something?
  • How to Say "No"
    Each one of us have a barrage of reasons why we just can't say "no" to our neighbor, friend, co-worker, love one, family member. How many tasks on your "To Do" lists are there because of other people's requests? Are you frustrated with yourself for responding to others in the same old way? Why not try something different.
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