3 Important Truths for Moms During the Pandemic
First: You are not making a wrong decision. Parenting is already full of conflicting philosophies that leave us second-guessing our decisions. The pandemic has added a whole new layer to stress out about. Should I let me kids go to school and risk getting infected...
How to Support Yourself and Your Family Through a Long Hard Time
Back in March, I wrote an article sharing some ideas for how to help children cope with the COVID-19 pandemic. At that point, we were in the acute phase of this collective trauma, and many (including myself) believed and hoped it would be over in a few weeks or...
Why Your New Year’s Resolutions Fail By January
80 percent according to Business Insider, actually. To make matters worse, only 8 percent of people even achieve their resolutions in the end. You can find link after link talking about how those people manage to successfully stick with their resolutions. In fact,...
When Grief Is a Holiday Guest
Grief doesn’t follow any particular calendar or timeline, but for many people the end of the year tends to be difficult. And by “the end of the year”, I really mean right around October to somewhere around January/February – so much happens in these few months. Some...
Are We Facing the End of the Family As We Know It?
Have you been worried about the State of the American Family? It’s not that unusual these days to hear one pundit or another decry the end of the American family. Even the Pew Research Center has been documenting our attitudes about the changing look of our families....
Baby, You’re Worth It
LOVING YOURSELF IS A PROCESS. Knowing your worth can be an even longer process. Sometimes a life long process. But, I want you to know that you deserve to look at yourself in the mirror, or simply think about yourself, and feel pride and happiness, and WORTHINESS....
How to Find a Mentor
While traveling with a wise and respected community leader, I jumped at the chance to learn from her. Never one to pass up an opportunity, I explained why I admired her, then asked for guidance in an area with which I’d struggled. With grace, and refreshing honesty,...
Women and the Power of Mentoring
She stood at the sink, frustrated, staring out the window at the new 1963 Dodge parked at the curb. She needed to get to the store, and they had just purchased the car so she could get around during the day. The problem was her husband hadn’t had time yet to teach her...
