Hello, Friends! With Halloween upon us and Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s around the corner, many of us are thinking about the holidays. I’ve already talked to some people who are doing some “holiday weight prevention” strategies. They know themselves well! According to Brian Wansink, Cornell Food and Brand Lab Director and author of Mindless […]
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Year: 2017
Free Marriage Consultation
Want to improve your marriage? I’m offering a free consultation in connection with the publication of Bridging the Gap: How to Create More Emotional Intimacy in Your Marriage. The book publishes this week, and in it I share how coaching has dramatically improve my results in my health and marriage. Families are built on marriages, […]
When Dad Wants to Help with FHE…
I just wanted to pop in and share one quick tip for FHE-dominant spouses. What’s that? Well, one spouse usually just heads FHE naturally; I call that spouse the “FHE-dominant spouse”. Often it’s the wife, but not always. If it’s you, please take a quick tip from me and don’t make the same mistakes I […]
Mom’s Birthday FHE Ideas
What do you do for family home evening when someone in your family is having a birthday during the week? Well, it’s my birthday this Saturday! The big 3-7. In our family, whoever has a birthday during the week gets to pick the FHEasy lesson, something from the family-home-evening-activity box, and the FHE treat if […]
Foot Rubs for FHE?
Want to know what foot rubs have to do with emotional intimacy? I was on Ed Tyll’s national radio show a few days ago and he really zoned in on foot rubs and intimacy (emotional and physical) as ways to connect spouses, but the concept of foot rubs and emotional intimacy with any family member […]
Fast & Free Fudge Recipe!
A box of brownie mix, water, an egg (opt,), coconut oil, and nuts = perfect fudge? You bet! By total accident, I discovered a fast and easy way to make perfect fudge. I wanted to make brownies, but after I got the batter ready, it was pretty late and I didn’t want to wait for […]
3 Ways To Make Family Dinner Smoother
In the last post “Why I Make Dinner Even When I Don’t Want To” I promised to share three things that I have discovered that make a HUMONGOUS difference is how smoothly our meals (and especially dinner) go. Here they are: Plan your meals ahead of time Prep your meals ahead of time Set the […]
Why I Make Dinner Even When I Don’t Want
Family meals at our house can be wonderfully bonding, but more often than I’d like, they can also be very frustrating. I prepare, serve, and clean up a lot of our meals and frequently wonder if it matters at all to my family that I work so hard to try to feed them well. I […]
Fast, Fun, and Cheap FHE Activity
We just finished family home evening and it was a blast! My husband is a self-employed arborist and his busy season is starting, so he doesn’t always make it home for FHE. Tonight, he missed dinner and the FHE lesson but made it for the activity, which was three kinds of bubbles! Even if you […]
Your Gift for FHE’s 102nd Anniversary
Do you like treats for family home evening? In honor of the 102nd anniversary of family home evening, I’m offering a list of food and treat ideas that go along with each lesson in FHEasy. Just contact me here or email me at Tina@FHEasy.com and tell me how you’ve used and/or shared FHEasy. You can […]