Amanda Slinkman - Freedom Counseling

08/25/2026

We can correct the patterns with various qualities of love, integrity, and discernment that maintain our primary accountability to ourselves to heal the wounds and exercise self-care/boundaries that respectively meet our parents’ uniquely-compromised growth where they’re at, too.

08/21/2026

08/18/2026

The reasons for the situations that hurt us are often not what this harsh world has taught us to see…

08/17/2026

An important facet of families and modeling for children’s approaches to conflict:

Safety in a relationship isn't about never fighting. It's about what your partner believes will happen if they tell you the truth. If they're editing themselves around you, minimizing how they really feel, or bracing for your reaction, that's worth paying attention to.

Being safe means your partner can cry without embarrassment, disagree without fear, admit they were wrong without it being held over them. It means what they share with you stays protected, not stored away to be used later. That kind of safety is what allows people to be fully known inside a relationship.

If they can't be honest with you, they can't really be close to you.

08/14/2026

08/05/2026

We tend to feel less anxious or helpless, and more resilient and empowered when we develop an understanding and capacity to practice Boundaries.

Note: Boundaries are not used to enforce control over others, in fact, a stated boundary might help others be more informed, but holds no guarantee others will listen. Boundaries are meant to remind us and others what we need to stay healthy and what we will do within our own rights and capabilities to ensure our own needs are met, when others choose not to respect those needs.

07/30/2026

Energy is created through our emotional values, but we can only serve so many at a time and one of the strategies is to budget the energy wisely and take inventory of how well that budget has benefited life-goals overall! These areas of energy supply and demand across our categories of main values is one place to start checking our inventory and direction of our budget.

07/30/2026