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My Podcast, Encouragement for Your Soul, is now offered free of charge.  This is a weekly  10 minute podcast offering soothing words if encouragement in the areas of relationships, parenting and self-care. Subscribe now!!!  You can get this delivered via a podcast, or even easier, get access to a subscriber webpage where you can listen to the soothing recordings that interest you.  Go to www.KimsPodcast.com/Kims-Podcast/ to find out more, or go directly to http://www.premiumcast.com/kimfredrickson-encouragement to subscribe.  Enjoy!

Encouragement for Your Soul Podcast

Check out 2 upcoming workshops in October:

“A Woman's Voice” Workshop for Women – October 3rd, 2009 in Roseville, CA  

Download flyer here A Woman's Voice Workshop

“Helping Your Teens Thrive” – October 1oth, 2009 in Roseville, CA  Download flyer below

Helping Teens Thrive Registration Flyer 

A Woman's Voice Workshop   Click here to view flyer. We'd love you to come!  Tell your friends!

Presented by Kim Fredrickson and Mary Akey, Roseville, CA

Just spoke on “Getting Your Kids & Teens to Listen” Click here to download free recording http://ping.fm/cpCdL

Hope you have a great weekend.  In honor of this Holiday weekend, I’m having a half-price sale on my weekly Podcast, Encouragement for Your Soul. This weekly 10 minute audio recording provides helpful information and compassionate encouragement to help you with your relationships with others and yourself!

My goal for this podcast is to provide listeners with some solid information and encouragement in the areas of relationships, parenting, and self-care once a week that will lift your spirits and give you a new perspective on what you are dealing with.

This 10-minute weekly boost is only $5 per month (usually $10 per month), and as an extra bonus, you will be able to submit questions to me in the areas you’d like some information and encouragement. 

The great news is you don’t need an Ipod or need any technological skills to benefit from these encouraging recordings. If you want to download them to an IPod you can, but you can also access all of the episodes on a special subscriber webpage you will get access to once you subscribe.  You don’t need an IPod to enjoy these episodes, all you have to do is push a button on the page to play the recording.

To listen to a sample of Encouragement for Your Soul Podcast, visit www.KimsPodcast.com/kims-podcast/  as well as to see which topics I’ve covered so far.

To get my new article, Ideas to Form Deeper Connections with God, Others, and Yourself, go to www.KimFredrickson.com scroll down a bit and enter in your name and e-mail

Hint for Mother's Day:

Mother's Day is just a few days away.  I've got a hint that may help in making Mother's Day go well this year.

Mother's Day is loaded…often filled with unmet expectations and disappointments.  If you are a Mom, I encourage you to “SPELL OUT CLEARLY” what you would like to happen that would make this an enjoyable and meaningful day for you.  When we hint at what we need, or even worse don't share clearly what we need, we will be disappointed, and those who want to honor us will feel like failures.

Consider a different option for this Mother's Day. Let your family know what you'd like: Be specific…here's some ideas: Dinner out, Dinner at home, Breakfast in bed, a gift, a nice card with kind words, a picture drawn by a small child, etc.  Let your family know, “Mother's Day is coming up and I'd like it to be a special day for all of us. I'd like to have lunch at home. Buying take out and bringing it home is fine. I'd also like a gift from each of you and a card telling me the ways you appreciate me.  This would make my Mother's day wonderful. I'd like lots of hugs and kisses too.”

Notice how clear this is. This type of direct approach will help your family honor you in a way that is meaningful to you, and will help them be successful.  Otherwise they will miss doing what you need and they will feel awful and confused about why their attempts to celebrate Mother's Day was a disaster.

Try honoring yourself and advocating for yourself this year.

If you are a Husband or Child, ask the Mom in your life what you could do to make this day special for her…and do it for her!

Hope this helps…I'd love to get your comments, so please leave them below!

Just heard that MommiesMagazine just published my article: “What Our Teens Need From Us” Check it out http://ping.fm/M748A

Hey…MommiesMagazine just published my article, “How to Handle Your Child or Teen's Mean or Critical Comments” http://ping.fm/bsNuE
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