It’s Reconstructing Me Time

by Lynne Maureen Hurdle | Mar 26, 2019 | Communication, Conflict Coaching, Parenting

This blog article is the last in this series and I hope you have been reading them and doing your own work right alongside of me. Last time, we were learning the basics of reconstruction. So, quick review before I jump in with my story. To reconstruct, we have to...

Time to Deconstruct Me

by Lynne Maureen Hurdle | Mar 5, 2019 | Communication, Conflict Coaching, Parenting

Anything that makes us feel as uncomfortable as conflict makes most of us feel needs to be examined fully and challenged. Yes, I said that two blogs ago and it really is true though counter to our first inclination. If you are like me, your first inclination is to...

Time For Me To Come Clean About My Own Conflict Construct

by Lynne Maureen Hurdle | Feb 12, 2019 | Communication, Inner Conflicts, Parenting

So, it seems as if I broke my own rule. You see, I always pride myself as a facilitator who never asks her audience to do anything I wouldn’t do. In my last two blogs, I asked you to take some major steps in doing your own personal work on conflict. This work is...

Conflict is Here to Teach You All the Things You Need to Know But are Too Afraid to Learn About

by Lynne Maureen Hurdle | Jul 9, 2018 | Conflict Coaching, Inner Conflicts, Parenting

I spent the early part of 1994 watching my mom waste away and suffer from what was later discovered as the return of breast cancer. By July, she was unexpectedly and unbearably gone. BAM! And I was hit from behind. The chance to experience what so many parents...

Being Mindful May Be Popular But What Most of Us Are Doing is Mind Full Parenting

by Lynne Maureen Hurdle | Jun 11, 2018 | Parenting

“The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel.” Steve Furtick No matter how well we think we are doing as a parent, in our minds someone else is always doing it better. And if we think that we...

The Need for “Grownup” Leadership – Why Childhood Lessons Still Count

by Lynne Maureen Hurdle | Sep 7, 2017 | Communication, Parenting

I ran into a friend who started working for a new company since I last saw her a year ago. Her job puts her in contact with leaders from several departments regularly. Her conversation with me was all about what she was observing about the difference in leadership...