Welcome to Hot Chocolate & Holding Close, a personal growth blog about wellness, relationships, parenting, pets, home maintenance, and writing.
Recent Blog Posts
Common Marriage Problems and How to Overcome Them
Do you ever find yourself thinking that marriage is hard and wondering how to overcome struggles in your marriage? No one likes to talk about how marriage is hard, and each marriage has problems or struggles. Ever find yourself wondering, how it is that marriages fall...
How to Start a Blog for Beginners: 4 Things to Consider
Have you ever wondered how to start a blog? Would it be easy? What would you need to consider? What are the best resources for getting started? I have wondered about what it would take to start a blog for years. For years, I wanted to start a blog, but I never knew...
Preparing Your Home for Winter
As October sets in, so does the time to prepare your house for the winter months. Home care can be a bit overwhelming, especially to a first-time homeowner. There is a lot to do in order to prepare your house for the winter months. I was fortunate because my parents...
How Do You Parent 24/7?
Recently, I was at my parent’s cottage with my brother. After spending not even twenty-four hours with me and my daughter, he says to me, “I don’t know how you can do this 24/7.” My response back to him was, “I don’t. That’s when I go paddleboarding.” Then I proceeded...
Will Therapy Help Me?
In the past month, I have had two separate friends ask, “Will therapy help me?”. They both knew that I had started therapy last year and wanted to know my experience. I had initially started therapy because of a separation from my spouse. I knew I would need...
How to Tell if Your Dog Has an Ear Infection
I’ve been a dog owner for about 5 ½ years and I had thought that I had become some sort of ear infection connoisseur as far as telling when my dog had them. She’s a boxer with floppy ears, allergies, and we spend plenty of time at the lake, all key risk factors in...
Welcome to Hot Chocolate & Holding Close!
Hello! I’m Amanda Brockman, creator of Hot Chocolate & Holding Close. I’m a 32-year-old accountant who felt like something was missing in her life, that I wasn’t making enough of a positive impact on the world. That’s where Hot Chocolate & Holding Close comes...
