Podcast: Pickleball, Deliberate Dating, and Relationships
Cindy Austin 2019-05-08T15:14:11+00:00Talking about Pickleball, Deliberate Dating, and How Relationships Can Heal, Transform, and Enrich Our Lives Across the Ages on Calvin Keeney's Podcast
The Dating Rap…
Cindy Austin 2019-05-01T18:43:01+00:00Dating is Broken Dating is brokenAnd I ain’t jokin’ You need more than a pretty profileTo make me smile What’s in your heart and are you smartMatter way more to me before I even start Can you speak the truthCan you own the wrongs of your youth Sex is easy, babyIf that’s enough for you [...]
Dating Might Be Broken, But You’re Not: 3 Ways to Find More Peace with the Dating Process
Cindy Austin 2019-04-03T21:35:45+00:00“Dating is hard.” “Online dating is inauthentic.” “Men aren’t even trying. They are lazy jerks.” “Women are playing games. Bitches be trippin’!” In the past, before online dating, a single, professional man or woman would be lucky to meet one potential suitor a month. And that would be considered a good month! But [...]
Male Initiation: Rites of Passage and Why Males Need One
Cindy Austin 2018-08-18T03:31:28+00:00A letter to my almost 16-year-old son for him to open as he goes on a 9-day adventure with Outward Bound in the Pisgah National Forest in the Linville Gorge area of the Blue Ridge Mountains. First, he did NOT want to go. He wanted to attend a basketball camp or perhaps, on the off chance [...]
Back Home Again
Cindy Austin 2018-08-18T03:32:12+00:00Dear Mom, Here is a snapshot of just some of the memorable moments and events I appreciate so much sharing with you throughout our time as mother and daughter this Mother’s Day 2018. I know I share many of these with my 6 siblings. And as I ripen as a mother, too, with [...]
Addiction and Codependency
Cindy Austin 2018-04-30T21:13:26+00:00Pia Mellody joins the company of those who have created highly effective therapeutic models and who can put their theories into practice with unusual skill. Pia’s approach is phenomenological, resulting from her own painful struggle with codependency, as well as from thousands of hours spent interviewing and working out healing strategies with patients at The Meadows. Pia began her [...]
New Ways for Families
Cindy Austin 2018-04-30T21:10:31+00:00New Ways for Families® is a structured parenting skills method intended to reduce the impact of conflict on the children in potentially high-conflict divorce and separation cases. It can be used whenever a parent or the court believes one parent needs restricted parenting time (supervised, no contact, limited time), at the start of a [...]
I Miss the Days
Cindy Austin 2018-08-20T03:03:05+00:00The Ugly Truth About Middle School Today I miss the days when everything I said didn’t have to be classified as sexual or inappropriate. I miss the days when I could say, “That was hard!” and not have some ignorant kid yell, “That’s what she said!” I miss the days when someone said, “I’m coming!” [...]
Hit it and Quit it!
Cindy Austin 2018-04-09T19:23:48+00:00Dating in the world of hookups “Hit it and Quit it!” It’s one of the dating cries of Generation Z-- (also known as iGeneration or iGen and Post-Millennials) the people born between 2000 and present. Having gotten this far into this newsletter means you have put forth much more effort into reading this than many [...]
Holding your NO as a Parent is Not Easy.
Cindy Austin 2018-08-20T03:02:58+00:00Parents, Hold Your NO! Holding your NO as a parent is not always easy. But for heaven’s sake, hold it! And hold it tight and true! I recently posted a video of me having to come to terms with this fact all over again. And I already knew it. Talk about teach and [...]