​         “Don’t bother me with facts and options. My mind is made up,” Stan concluded, ending our discussion. If you identify with Stan, then you embrace a “one and done” mentality. Such a mindset cuts off any possibility of nurturing a sense of resilience when adversity comes your way.
          Last week I introduced the first path on your healing journey, that of moving away from focusing on what’s wrong with your circumstances and toward embracing what’s right. Your symptoms identify what’s wrong in your life. Your process toward upward spiraling identifies what’s right.
          This week, I will introduce the second path, that of moving away from a one and done mentality and toward expanding resilience in your thinking.
          Stan is stuck in a one and done mentality. That is, don’t confuse him with the facts. He’s made up his mind. There is no sense of resilience. No considering other options. Considering other options would expose Stan to the possibility of his being wrong, and that just can’t happen.
          A one and done mentality is the very definition of being stuck. Not being open to other options generates a downward spiral. Stan had reluctantly sought therapy with me at the goading of his wife. When I asked him to describe his presenting problem, he implied social anxiety.
          “You see, Doc, I’m just a homebody. I work my shift, come home, grab a beer, and sit down to relax.”
          “That’s your comfort zone, huh.”
          “Yep. Now, Cindy, she’s my wife. She’s a go-getter. She’s into everything and in everybody’s business. Me? I’ve got my tools, my work, and then my recliner. That’s all I need, Stan concluded.
          Stan and Cindy had been married for 23 years. Their son and daughter were gone now and, with their being just them, things were different.
          “So, things have changed for you and Cindy, and it’s been tough getting used to your new reality. I can help with that.
          I explained the concept of resilience to Stan, giving him a few examples. “It’s not about giving up what you are comfortable with. Rather, it's about expanding your comfort zone gradually. Let new thoughts and feelings come to you, kind of wash over you, and gradually expand your comfort zone, without giving up who you are. I don’t want you to change. Just think about being curious.”
          With mentalligent psychotherapy (MPT), I helped Stan develop a sense of mindfulness to avoid one and done thinking by staying in the now. I helped him move from what’s wrong to what’s right in his life by incorporating elements of positive psychology in his thinking. I challenged his stuck-ness with cognitive behavioral strategies, like successive approximation to increase his comfort level in social situations.
          In my new book, The Healing Journey: Overcoming Adversity on the Path to the Good Life, I share other examples and conversations that identify one and done thinking as a source of our adversity. Developing resilience frees you from your constrictive thinking and sets you on your healing journey to the good life. Check out my new book at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CY9PQXMZ on Amazon Books.
Blessings, Dr. Jon

​​             You feel like crap. Stuff has happened both to you and around you which just adds to your burdens. It’s been this way for a while and you’re…just…done. You share some of your stuff with a good friend of yours. He doesn’t have answers. He doesn’t judge. He just listens.
          And so, your healing journey begins. You get a referral to begin psychotherapy, google your prospective therapist, and decide to get just one appointment with him…just to check him out, see if it’s a good fit for you.
          Mentalligent psychotherapy (MPT) is a term I coined some time ago in consultation with my colleague, Dr. Kristin Lee. In this process, your therapist helps you engage both the software of your brain, the mental, and the hardware, the intelligence, to bring all of your resources to bear on your healing journey. In doing so, over time, you create new neural pathways, called neurogenesis, that form new habits and thought structures to maintain your healing journey.
          In my new book, The Healing Journey: Overcoming Adversity to the Path to the Good Life (AmazonBooks, 2024), I identify 5 paths on your healing journey. These are proposed changes in your core beliefs. In each of four subsequent podcasts, we will explore each of these paths.
          First, move away from focusing on what’s wrong and embrace what’s right.
In traditional counseling and psychotherapy, therapists follow a medical model and take time to confirm your diagnosis. This is a delineation of what’s wrong with you. Insurance companies even require this diagnostic code from your therapist in order to be paid by insurance. As a population, we are trained to think about diagnosis, what’s wrong with me.
         With MPT, I gently help patients focus on what’s right with them. This is puzzling to new patients at first. Folks are very skilled at rattling off their list of woes. Rather than rehash old stuff, I encourage patients to find and embrace their strengths and successes.
Barry came to his third session with me. During the first session, he outlined his presenting problem in great detail. He gave me a thorough account of his syptoms, relationships, precipitating events, and sundry maladies.
During his second session, having reviewed with him his returned behavioral questionnaire, I gave him an assignment.
        “Between now and when we get back together, Barry, I want you to journal at the end of each day. Think about the various things that went right for you today and jot your thoughts and feelings about each item in your journal,” I concluded.
When he came for his third session, I began, “So, Barry, ya got something for me?” I noticed he had his journal in hand.
          “Well, kinda. I mean, I don’t understand why you wanted me to document what went right for me this past week. How does that address my problems?” Barry handed me his notes.
            “Fair point. Let me explain. From your first two sessions, it became clear to me that you know fully what your problems are and how they manifest in your daily life. It’s clear to me that you have been  downward-spiraling and are stuck in the mire of your life to date. You seem to start each day with, “okay, here we go again.”
“You got that right.”
            “So,” I concluded, “let’s try a new perspective. As we continue your healing journey, I want you to move away from focusing on what’s wrong and embrace what’s right with your days.”
           Typically, what we pay attention to grows. New habits can be cultivated. Focusing on thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, instead of on symptoms and diagnoses, generates lasting positive change on your healing journey.
   To find more of this excerpt, buy your copy of my new book at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CY9PQXMZ
Blessings,
Jon

          Messy gets a bad rap, ya know? If you like everything in its place, own it. If you live in a world of mess, own that. It’s not how you are. It’s who you are. Messy is just a descriptor, not a definer.
          Messy is both okay and also interesting and informative. When you are messy, you place your unique signature on your world. You enhance your capacity to learn, unlearn, and relearn what’s important to you. Often, messy is the starting point of your healing journey.
                   Someone comes to you and, as introduction, tells you that they want to “clean up my act.” He may be denying his identity and putting on what he thinks others want to see. Here’s an old Chinese proverb. Which do you want to be:
Tension is who you think you should be.
Relaxation is who you are.
          So, being messy conveys a sense of physical, spatial, and emotional relaxation. A little-known neuromuscular fact is that it takes nine facial muscles to smile, but 41 facial muscles to frown. So, the body actually has to work harder being tense ad stressed than it does being relaxed.
          Now, messy does not necessarily convey a lack of order or organization to your life. Rather, being messy challenges you to ask, who’s in charge of my life? Do I make a concerted effort to present a “good front,” to “make a good impression?” If so, then order and organization are in charge of your life.
          It’s hard to fake mess, but it’s okay to be messy. Simply let things be, adapt, adjust, and move through your life. Order and organization will not be in charge but may be a by-product of your life.
          “I’m sorry I’m late. It wasn’t traffic. I set my alarm in time to be here. I just lost track,” Amber frequently started her sessions with an excuse for being 5-10 minutes late.
          “You know what? I’m really glad you are here,” I responded as Amber settled in. “I’m impressed with how much effort you are making in your therapy. I get it. Life can be messy, but it’s what we do with the mess that matters. When you get here, you are all in. That’s what counts. Now, what’s been on your mind?”
          This excerpt from my new book, The Healing Journey: Overcoming Adversity on the Path to the Good Life (AmazonBooks, 2024) is an example of how mentalligent psychotherapy (MPT) helps our patients accept who they are and use the tools of mindfulness, positive psychology, and cognitive behavioral strategies to embrace their healing journey to who they want to be. Your copy is available at ,  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CY9PQXMZ.
Blessings,
Dr. Jon

           Stress, we all have it. Some of it is good stuff, called eustress. Most of it is bad stuff, called distress. Resilience, we all want it. When we are resilient, we can embrace the eustress and minimize the distress in our lives. So, how do stress-resilient people succeed in life, where others fail?
       In 2009, psychologist John B. Arden wrote The Habits of Stress-Resilient People: A Brain-Based Perspective, through the Institute of Behavioral Health. In this seminal work, he outlined five resiliency factors that lead to one’s success over stress. These five factors generate the acronym:

1. S – Social
2. E – Exercise
3. E – Education
4. D – Diet
5. S – Sleep

               Jody came for her scheduled appointment with me, running a little
late. She settled into “her” chair in my office and I in mine beside her. We swiveled to address each other.
          “Whoa, whoa, whoa,” I smiled and started. “Deep breaths…that’s it…You seem rushed and frazzled. What’s up?”
              “Doc, you don’t know the half of it,” Jody sighed deeply. Having just returned from her second maternity leave to her teaching 5th graders, she was highly stressed.
          “I don’t know whether I’m coming or going,” she blew out her exasperation. “Between new class assignments, grading papers, babies crying, and trying to keep peace everywhere, I’m overwhelmed.”
              “I can’t imagine the constant tugs on your time and attention from all directions,” I consoled. “But tell me this. What are you doing to give yourself stress relief.”
          “I can’t imagine. Too much time just putting out fires at home and at school. Whew!”
          “I have some thoughts about what you can do. Do you want to hear them?”
          “Go for it.”
          I then shared with Jody the S.E.E.D.S. acronym. The Social stress relief option could be calling her bestie on the way home from school each day, just to catch up or blow off steam. Another could be planning a date night with her husband. An Exercise stress relief option could be walking or jogging either before going to work or after supper, while hubby takes care of the babies.
          The Education option could be scheduling a couple getaway combined with a continuing education seminar. The Diet option could be planning healthy meals around the week’s activities. I would also add to Dr. Arden’s acronym another “D” option. That would be Delegating. Do what absolutely can only be done by you and then bring in the troops. It does take a village.
          Finally, the Sleep option includes always shooting for 8-10 hours of sleep per night, safeguarding the bedroom only for sleep and intimacy, no screen time there, and maintaining a stress-limiting sleep routine. Baby needs during sleep time can be shared with hubby.
          In my new book, The Healing Journey: Overcoming Adversity on the Path to the Good Life, which you can find at  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CY9PQXMZ, incorporates the S.E.E.D.S. acronym into the healing journey. The mindfulness, positive psychology, and cognitive behavioral strategies of mentaligent psychotherapy (MPT) help focus on generating stress-resilient strategies.
Blessings,
Jon

Neuroplasticity Gets You from Here to There
          So, neuroplasticity, that’s a fancy medical term. It’s also relatively new. Up until 20 years ago, researchers and clinicians thought our brains matured until we turned 25. And then? No more maturity. The brain just stopped growing and changing.
          Now, more recent research confirms that our brains mature and grow, creating new neural networks throughout our life span. How cool is that? This gives underlying, neurological foundation for the lasting change that can come from psychotherapy. Two maxims of counseling and psychotherapy apply.
          First, you can stop unhealthy old behavioral habits. Conditioning principles use the maxim, “Use it or lose it.” On your healing journey, this maxim becomes, “Stop using it and lose it.”
          “So. Hank, you seem so excited,” I paused after ushering my patient into my office. “What’s going on?”
          “Well, Doc, you know how you’ve been encouraging me for months to find the new me? The me where rage is not my go-to response with Carrie? Hank sat down and leaned forward in his excitement.
          “Yeah…” I hesitated, anticipating his continuing his story.
          “Well, the new me arrived last night,” Beaming, Hank took a deep breath to collect himself.
          “Great!” I exclaimed, “Introduce him to me.”
          “Okay. After I got home last night, Carrie started off on me, telling me all the things I had failed to do around the house. Some of it were things we had talked about and that I had said I would take care of. More of it was just her ranting about random messes, broken stuff, and such, like we live in a pigsty, which we don’t.”
“Wow! That’s a lot,” I took it all in. “How did you respond?”
          “That’s the thing, ya know? Hank took a breath, smiled, and continued. “In the past I would have countered her every point, shouted back, and stomped off, probably back out to the local bar. That would have been the old me.”
          “And the new you?”
          “I did none of that. Instead, I reached out to her softly and gave her a big hug,” Hank chuckled, thinking back. “She stiffened up. She didn’t know how to respond.”
          “And then?”
          “Then I apologized for not getting to the things she had listed. She softened after my apology and hugged me back. Then I active listened, like you taught me, listening to her stresses with her work, the kids, and the house. I let her talk and then concluded, no wonder she’s so overwhelmed. She broke down in tears. I held her some more, told her to put her feet up, got her a beverage, and did a load of laundry. Pretty cool, huh?”
          “Yeah, really cool. I like your new you, and I bet Carrie wants to keep him.”
          The second maxim of mentalligent psychotherapy is this. What you pay attention to grows. Focus on the bad stuff and it gets bigger. Focus on the good stuff and it grows. Weaving mindfulness, positive psychology, and cognitive behavioral strategies into your mentalligent psychotherapy with patients gives them the tools to shut down old, unhelpful, neuropathways, and to engage your brain’s neuroplasticity to create new, healthy neural pathways along your healing journey.
          For more, check out my new book, The Healing Journey: Overcoming Adversity on the Path to the Good Life, at, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CY9PQXMZ, and on my website at https://authorjonrobinson.com/
Blessings,
Dr. Jon

     Historically, the term “Inner Sanctum” makes reference to the most sacred part of a temple or church, the holiest area, often reserved for clergy or rituals. Figuratively, our individual inner sanctum is our emotional core, where our most private and intimate feelings reside.
          So, where is your inner sanctum? Where do you keep your most private, core feelings? In your heart? In your mind? With whom do you share that space? Who knows what and how you really feel? Few people ever gain access to your inner sanctum of thought and feelings. There is exclusivity, privacy, and sometimes reverence to it.
          Joe was the go-getter in the marriage. He had a ton of casual friends with whom he played ball and drank. Maggie, on the other hand, was the wall flower. At parties, she waited for others to come to her. How they have been able to be together all these years was a puzzle to many of their friends.
         Their secret was a shared inner sanctum. Each was attuned to the nuances of the other’s behaviors. Each knew when something was up. In those times, they stopped whatever was going on and they shared their feelings with each other. Not only the sad, glad, mad variety, but all the varied feelings that they could find to express themselves intimately.
        Maggie sighed deeply as they got back home from a neighborhood party. She enjoyed time with her girlfriends and he drank and laughed it up with his guy friends. The caught glimpses of each other across the patio where their neighbor’s grill was fired up. Joe caught drift of her deep sigh.
          “Okay, Babe, what’s up? Joe curled his arm around her waist after putting their coats up.
             “Nothing, really. I’m…okay.” She put on a happy face and smiled.
             “Nice try,” Joe urged, “Come on. Out with it.”
         “It’s just that,” Maggie hesitated, fearing she was being oversensitive and not wanting to make a big deal out of it. “Well, I miss you when we’re out together, but not together.”
           “What? I’m confused,” Joe pulled away slightly, trying to make sense out of Maggie’s perspective.
          “Yeah. We’re in the same room, us and other people, but you are you and I am me,” Maggie drew her lunk of a husband to her. “I miss the us. I miss you.”
        Joe’s heart sank. He then lifted his wife and twirled her around. “Thank you for sharing. Don’t keep that load on your mind.”
           Maggie smiled and nuzzled into his chest.
          “Let’s be us right now. Here,” he patted the couch. “Let’s sit and talk.”
          She let him guide her to the sofa, concluding, “And this is why we love each other.”
          Joe and Maggie share each other’s inner sanctum. She could have fussed at him for not paying attention to her at the party. He could have gotten defensive, accusing her of jamming her up. If any of that was there, they put it aside and spoke their core, intimate feelings. He knew it was Maggie’s moment and he was there for her. The next time it will be his moment.
         Sharing your inner sanctum with another takes that relationship to a deeper, more meaningful level. Active listening in these moments is the means of getting past the words to focus on the feelings behind them.
          In my new book, The Healing Journey: Overcoming Adversity on the Path to the Good Life, I help you find and embrace your inner sanctum. For more, find my website at https://www.authorjonrobinson,com/ and buy your copy at amazonbooks.com and click on https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CY9PQXMZ
Blessings,
Jon

     “In a minute…”, “I’ll be right there…”, “Soon. We’ll get together soon.” How many times have you said these things…today? As you’ve heard before, the road to crises is paved with good intentions. Your words matter. Be clear. Mean what you say. Follow through. Clarity of communication is the hallmark of good relationships. When you are not clear with others, you risk triggering anxiety, depression, or at least increased stress. Don’t do that ☹
          Monique, a recent college graduate who was reluctantly embracing the dating scene after work, eagerly looked at the messages on her phone. “Cory seems nice. He said he’d give me a call,” she thought as she scrolled down her messages. “Nope. Nothing from Cory. The jerk,” she clicked her phone off, regretting having struck up a conversation with him at work in the first place.
          A daily experience for some people, trying to get a foothold on their young adult life. Monique set herself up for disappointment by taking Cory’s words seriously in the first place. To her, his “let’s get together. I’ll call you later” was a date. To Cory, it may have been just a pick-up line. She’s left waiting, not knowing, perhaps missing out on other opportunities because of Cory’s nonspecific words of encouragement that he would follow through.
          When people are on the receiving end of speculative words, often they take them seriously, as a commitment or even a verbal contract. “He said he would get back to me, so he will.” So, Monique is left waiting. The longer she waits, the more likely she will personalize the circumstances.
          “What’s wrong with me. He’s so cute, waaay out of my league. I’m such a loser. (sigh) Just alone for life. “Maybe he’s blowing me off because he doesn’t like me. I’m such an idiot.” She then likely turns to what I call the woulda-coulda-shouldas, followed by a chorus of if-only’s. Your words matter, both to others and the words you apply to yourself.
            In my 43 years of clinical practice, and now in my new book, The Healing Journey: Overcoming Adversity on the Path  to the Good Life (Amazon, 2024), I introduce a new treatment strategy, mentalligent psychotherapy (MPT). Here, I interweave the therapy techniques of mindfulness, positive psychology, and cognitive behavioral interventions. For Monique, several rational beliefs come to mind.
          First, when you encounter something off-putting from another just let it slide. You want to expect the positive and build on what you’ve got. Remember, though, once is an anomaly, but twice is a pattern. If the off-putting recurs, confront gently. Say your piece to set the other straight. Setting healthy boundaries puts any relationship on even footing. If the pattern continues, sayonara. Go on to develop other better friendships.
          Second, about both your self-talk and what others say to you, stop assuming. A cute little memory device I use is to spell out the word “assume.” When you assume, you make an ass out of you and me (ass-u-me). Rather, consider input to be data for you. Check out any assumptions and move toward facts.
      Finally, true to cognitive behavioral therapy, avoid extreme words in your descriptions. Always, only, ever, never routinely generate problems, not solutions. For more, go to amazonbooks.com at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CY9PQXMZ.
Blessings,
Jon

     I was part of a weekend retreat many years ago, where one exercise was to pair up and alternatively ask your partner, “Who are you?” The usual answers to that question tumbled out, “I’m Jon Robinson…Q…I’m a clinical psychologist…Q…I’m a husband, father, son.” As my partner kept asking, my answers got more profound and revealing. I had no idea before that exercise how many parts there were to my identity.
      So, who are you? You were born. You live. You will die, hopefully long in the future. But what’s the stuff of which you are made? Investing in counseling or psychotherapy goes a long way toward finding answers. You don’t have to be “broke” to find yourself on your own healing journey.
     Often, people find significant life events that mold, help define, who they are. Such events, stressors, take their toll for good or bad. Hans Selye, noted Canadian psychiatrist way back in the day, researched the 50 most stressful events in our lives. Top of the list? Marriage. Next? Death of the spouse. The events defined both the distress and eustress that we encounter. Important stuff but not foundational.
      Life events are what you encounter, but with whom you encounter these events with actually shape your personal identity. Researchers in developmental and personality psychology posit that 80% of our personality comes from our relationship with our parents before age 5. From age 5 to 15, relationships with our peers take precedence and account for 15% of our personality. After age 15, we forge our own path toward identity and personality with our own, unique input.
     During adolescence, when the biggest goofs, successes, and challenges confront us, we are wholly responsible and accountable for our actions. After the sturm und drang of our life events in our late teens, we become young adults. Thankfully, eventually, 80% of us embrace the best of both parents who guided us through our most formative years.
    Critical to the process of coming to terms with who you are is understanding your foundational life events and how you handled them. In mentalligent psychotherapy (MPT), which I introduce and explore in my new book, The Healing Journey: Overcoming Adversity on the Path to the Good Life(https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CY9PQXMZ) I help folks understand that we have no control over what happens to us, the singular life events. However, we have every control over how we react to them. Turning crises into personal blessings is key to overcoming adversity.
      Who are you? Take time to find out and embrace all of your parts. Be the best version of who you are.
Blessings,
Jon

​          Nope. Not ever. But is dieting worth it? Yep. But only if you stick with it and lose to your goal weight. While dieting can get you to your goal weight, weight management will keep you there. That’s the rub.
          Pattie was a 28-year-old, married woman with a 5-year-old daughter, Amanda, and husband of ten years, Alex. During her first therapy appointment with me, after pleasantries and settling in, I asked, “How can I help?”
         She came to me for tools to help her overcome her resurging anxiety and depression by not keeping her weight off. She had gained over 100 lbs. during her pregnancy with Amanda and had yo-yo’ed her weight loss, still 30 lbs. from her pre-pregnancy weight.
            “After a horrible childhood, I finally put it all together my senior year in high school, found and married Alex after graduation, and vowed never to be Fatty Patty ever again. And yet, look at me now,” she sighed.
             Pattie recalled for me a childhood of being bullied and body-shamed for her flabby shape. Both of her folks are big boned and overweight. However, Pattie was small and a petite build, taking after her maternal grandmother. She had been in and out of therapy for years, with a modicum of success, losing weight and feeling better about herself. Before her senior year in high school, her folks “sent me to fat camp for two months.”
Pattie shared with me how bitter and resentful she felt for being singled out by her folks, “of all people, but that summer changed my life.” She beamed about how she developed healthy food, exercise, and lifestyle choices during her summer camp experience. She got to her goal weight and kept it, until she got pregnant. “How could I be there for me when I was growing new life inside me?”
After developing therapeutic rapport with Pattie over three appointments and having her fill out the Multimoldal Life History Questionnaire to help me understand her better and develop a realistic treatment plan, I shared with Pattie a weight management program I had developed and used successfully with patients over many years of clinical practice.
“Okay, Pattie, so to review, I can help you lose the 30 lbs. to your goal weight by following my weight management protocol. Remember, the protocol works best within your sticking to a Mediterranean Diet and working out or walking 3 times per week. To stay on track to lose weight, follow these guidelines:

1. Use water as your only beverage. Nothing else. It’s the only beverage with no calories.
2. Avoid what I call the 3 S’s, that is,

1. No snacks
2. No seconds, and
3. No scraps.

1. No food intake after your evening meal, between 6PM and 7PM

until breakfast.
          After following my weight management protocol and weekly therapy for 3 months, Pattie reached her goal weight, began balancing her self-care with other care, was less anxious and noticeably happier and more pleased with herself.
          In my new book, The Healing Journey: Overcoming Adversity on the Path to the Good Life (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CY9PQXMZ), I introduce Mentalligent Psychotherapy (MPT) and share several treatment protocols that help you soar through adversity and develop a positive perspective on your life circumstances. Check it out. Blessings, Dr. Jon

​       All parents want to keep their children safe. It’s essential to do what we do as parents and give them the opportunity to grow up to be independent, responsible, community-minded adults. We try to be diligent in keeping our children from being in danger.
          Mandy was quickly getting the dishes done while 2-year-old Allison was toddling around the kitchen. Allison had found the pans in an open cabinet and loved to bang them together. Mandy laughed at her and kept her eye on her to make sure her darling didn’t find trouble.
          As Mandy was drying last night’s dinner plates, she glimpsed from the corner of her eye that Allison was trying to get into the cabinet door where the cleaning supplies were kept.
          “No, no, sweetie. These are not playthings,” Mandy chided, as she directed Allison’s attention elsewhere.
                Latches on cabinet doors are commonplace safety measures to help keep inquiring little hands from dangerous products. Another ubiquitous safety measure is electric outlet covers to keep little fingers from getting shocked or worse. While most parents keep dangerous products out of the reach of their young children and attend to other household safety measures, the Lanier Law Firm, https://www.lanierlawfirm.com/child-product-safety/ has taken child safety practice to another level.
          The Lanier Law Firm has identified a list of child product safety guidelines that all parents should read and absorb. Their identified areas of child product safety include:
Make Sure the Product Meets Child Safety Standards

1. Ensure the Product You Want for Your Kids Is Age-Appropriate
2. Examine the Child Product’s Materials and Design
3. Ensure the Product Does Not Pose an Injury Hazard for Your Kids
4. Read the Product’s Instructions and Warnings
5. Making Sure Kids Are Safe From Dangerous Products

 Due diligence on our part creates a safe environment for our children.
          Mandy put up the last of the dishes, dried her hands on the towel, and turned to her baby girl.
          “Okay, Allison, I’m all yours,” she soothed as she reached for her toddler.
          “Yay!!!,” Allison glowed, as she clapped her hands together. Snuggled in her mama’s loving arms, they went to her playroom and settled into playing with her dolls.
          Keep your children safe and savor the fun times. They grow up too soon.
Blessings,
Jon