Colin Family Mediation Group

03/14/2025

02/10/2025

Tip of the Week: Active listening is key in family mediation. Try to truly understand the other person's perspective before formulating your response. It can make a world of difference.

01/28/2025

https://colinfamilymediationgroup.com/2025/01/28/divorce-mediation-a-better-path-for-your-family/

Divorce mediation offers a more constructive and compassionate approach to resolving family conflicts, allowing families to work together...

12/25/2024

A note from Dr. Colin:
We in this group are among the lucky ones, with roofs over our heads, food on the table, and family and friends nearby. We are blessed.
For some though, this holiday is hard.
A bit of good news that helps me when I am struggling at this time of year is this: From now until June, the sunny part of each day will last longer than it did the day before.
Be kind.

04/18/2024

How does your family celebrate Earth Day?
While every day is a good day to be kind to our world, Earth Day is an especially great day to show appreciation! From building your own DIY greenhouse with the kids to group document shredding and composting, there are many ways to celebrate Mother Earth in Fairfax County. Check out this guide to Earth Day activities.

Find events for Earth Day 2022 in Fairfax & the DC area for nature lovers, beer drinkers, the family, the sustainability purveyors, and stargazers.

04/02/2024

Wednesday, April 3, is National Walking Day.
Will the members of your family take a long walk together?

A day to celebrate the easiest way to be the healthiest version of you.

04/02/2024

When a child's parents live apart, which one can claim an Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) for the child? You can find the IRS rules through this link.

Review the qualifying child rules for the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC).

03/20/2024

officially starts before midnight Tuesday. Wednesday will be the first full day of spring.
It's time to play outside!

03/09/2024

“Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.” - Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Happy International Women's Day from Virginia Family Law Center, P.C.!

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02/14/2024

Our mission is to help families solve problems privately, peacefully, and constructively. A courtroom is an awful place for resolving a family matter.

02/14/2024

Happy Valentine's Day my friends. 🩷

Let's talk about love.

Love is why we’re here.

Love is who we are.

Love is what our best days are built on.

And all we really leave behind.

If we could lift up off the earth, and see as the angels see, all we would see is the light of our love. 🩷

So let's be the kindness that reminds someone that there's still plenty of love in the world.

I'm sending you so much love, Valentines. 🩷

* May our prayers rise together for those who need the power of love today.

From Every Day Spirit: A Daybook of Wisdom, Joy and Peace. Filled with love. Right here: www.everydayspirit.net

01/09/2024

On Monday Americans will celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with a national holiday and a National Day of Service.
All National Parks are free on Monday, Jan. 15, and most have events to honor Dr. King as well as service projects. It will be a great day for teaching your children or your grandchildren about giving back to your community.

01/04/2024

January 2024 Blessings with so much love. 💛

Thank you, January, for welcoming us to the threshold of a pilgrimage.

We begin by blessing the year that is done:

May we remember the gifts and the wild grace amidst the challenges and losses.

And we bless the year to come:

May we surround this new year with possibility and promise.

May we grow together on the pilgrimage of this year in gratitude for what is and hope for what will be.

May this year open your heart in new ways, shine light in new places, and hold love beyond your wildest dreams. 💛.....
What a blessing it has been for me to walk with you on the road of becoming more loving, more self-compassionate, more joyful, more able to bear our burdens, more willing to be instruments of peace in the world.

Let's keep walking - and becoming who we really are. 💛..............
Most of these posts are excerpts from Every Day Spirit: A Daybook of Wisdom, Joy and Peace.

The book has a page for every day of the year and “starts” again today.

It’s not too late to get your book and join us. They are here for you: www.everydayspirit.net

12/21/2023

Today marks the solstice and the beginning of a little more light each day in the Northern Hemisphere. 💙

The traditions of the season rise from stories of great Light and Love that permeate all darkness and fear.

At this time of the year, we celebrate a new dawn, birth, rebirth, blessings and miracles.

Even amidst the challenge and suffering that we are witnessing or experiencing, there is a possibility of hope. 💙

Have faith that from darkness will grow new life from seed to bloom.

Tomorrow there will be more light.

And the next day, more light. ✨

May the longest night of darkness bring rest and rebirth.

May the growing sun of daylight bring hope and new beginnings. 💙

From Mary’s heart and the Every Day Spirit book. There's a page for every day of the year. For your heart right here: www.everydayspirit.net