Mental Health

I love meeting new people, hearing their stories, and learning from them. This world would be so boring if we were all the same. Some of my best friends hold vastly different viewpoints from my own, and I treasure...

We all want our children to be well-adjusted, kind, and empathetic. But raising an emotionally intelligent child can be difficult. Especially on those days when deadlines are past due, bills are piling up, and sleep is in short supply....

When I was younger I had very specific ideas about what my birth plan and motherhood would be like. We would start a family in our mid-twenties and be done having babies by 30. We would have two or...

We are all longing to feel seen and heard, to receive validation that our experience matters. That we matter. The last few months have been especially challenging. For many, the uncertainty we have been experiencing can feel overwhelming at...

One evening while using my time to mindlessly scroll Facebook, I saw a snapshot of a Twitter post that read, “Are you healed or are you distracted?” Well. Call the police please because I am being targeted by a stranger...

Some days it seems like the world in on fire. Everywhere you look or read, people are angry and upset. We seem so divided, so disconnected from each other. We are anxious, we are worried, and we don't know...

I was feeling overwhelmed. The world was noisy. My life was noisy. I felt like things were constantly coming at me. So many things I had to input and process. Complete overload. I blamed this stress on my kids, on the...

When counting down the seconds until midnight of 2020, I certainly didn't anticipate the trials this year would bring. But when the balloons at the party failed to drop due to a release cable malfunction, that was the first...

My life has taken a slower pace lately. I’m roasting an actual whole chicken this evening for dinner. I even brined it yesterday, with fresh herbs I (mostly) grew myself this summer. Also in the oven: a roasting root vegetable...

I truly believe that "for everything there is a season" and that we can learn from nature when it comes to letting go. One benefit of living up north is that we get to distinctly witness the four seasons. We...