Fuse At Home

Most families, at some point, face difficult issues with time, money, or communication. Sometimes homes become the place where everyone is sick, worn-out and/or angry. We hide in our rooms, doing our own things. Meals together are rare, and we rush to get everyone to all of their appointments. Sound familiar?

There is hope. You can have a home that is a place of peace, of support – a place where you can refresh yourself, where every member respects each other and recognizes their uniqueness.

A strong family supports and nourishes each other. It creates a safe, positive and supportive place for all family members to live and thrive. A strong family reaches out to others when they have a need and gives back to others when they see that they have a need.

Adults in a strong family set the tone and are good role models -leading by example. They work together to solve problems, and they pass their skills on to their children.

With F.U.S.E. at Home we help you and you help your family learn how to rely on and believe in your unlimited potential, and in the power of having a unified purpose. We know that you already have the intuitive knowledge and the ability to have the kind of family that you want to have, we just help you become aware of it.

We're here to help you stir up that innate knowing and ability already instilled deep within you. We help you forge forward when the "old you" would rather give up and turn back.

Families are struggling to stay together and to find a purpose for being a family. Without purpose, families drift through life, letting conditions and circumstances control them, rather than taking charge themselves. Old paradigms are passed down from parents, grandparents, friends, media, and other sources of influence. The tradition of raising children to take over the farm, or the family business no longer applies. Families lack direction and a common set of goals to unify, strengthen and empower them. F.U.S.E. was developed to provide these vital family elements.

Why the family?

The family is the foundational unit of our society. It is through raising the awareness of the family and the development of a family purpose, vision and goals that we see the family making a difference in our society. As families live with purpose, their children grow into adults with purpose, vision and a positive self-image; into adults who can become true leaders and a force of positive change in our society. Only through healthy families can we have a healthy society.

The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.

This light-hearted look at the family by Erma Bombeck brings us to the point of F.U.S.E. at Home program We will explore the common thread that binds families together and makes families the foundation of our society.

Families are much more than groups of individuals living in the same house together. Each family has a unique set of goals and aspirations, often unspoken; bonds that bind them as a unit for their lifetime. Families are a source of emotional support and comfort, warmth and nurturing, protection and security where:

every person is encouraged to pursue their own special dreams;
individuality is permitted to flourish;
children are given a unique identity, a sense of value, and a sense of belonging.

Most of my working life I have focused on programming for families. I have studied books, watched families, and worked on understanding the role that families play in our society. In observing our own family, we realized that often we did not do what we knew we should be doing because it took effort and sometimes moved us out of our comfort zone. It was easier to procrastinate, find excuses, or agree that "well maybe we are too busy right now". These are choices we made. But did we really make them or were they our paradigms kicking in. Looking back from our new level of awareness, we can see that they were our paradigms.

Looking back, we can also see that one of the things we did that had a major impact on our family (although it may not have seemed like that at the time) was the structured and focused family time. When we look at our daughters now, we can see the results of some of the things we were teaching them in our family time. We see young women who stand out from others because they learned how to lead, they learned how to express themselves and they learned how to live their values. They understand the importance of the family unit, and want to spend time together, even in the teen years and as young adults striving to be independent.