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How Can Meditating Help Me?
Recently I heard a message that the human brain was never intended to process the amount of news stories and mass amounts of information we receive from social media. For some reason, this notion has sat with me for a couple of weeks. Not looking too much into fact...
Boundary-Setting
As a child, teen, and even into early adulthood, I was a big people-pleaser. I thought that being a good friend or child meant dropping everything and going along with whatever everyone else wanted. I used to believe that saying no and disappointing someone meant I...
Getting Triggered by Our Kids
My third grader struggles with her math homework. She has learning differences and an ADHD diagnosis and her cycle of struggle around arithmetic often leaves her flooded and dysregulated. She gets snippy and irritable. She often storms off. Sometimes she cries. Almost...
What it’s like getting a puppy
Recently, I got a puppy. And while I grew up in a family with dogs and thought I knew what it would be like, as it turns out, having the primary responsibility of a new puppy is very different. So in an effort to share a full picture with everyone, I will share my 5...
A New School Year
As summer comes to an end many of us go back to school and so do our children, others come back from vacation. Getting back into a routine can feel exhausting to say the least. As I think about children going back to school, a question that comes up for me is: How can...
Take Care, You Are Not Alone
I have found this blog incredibly difficult to write because while I have felt the need to write it and share what I can professionally add to the dialogue, I feel like this issue has been significantly whitewashed, and I don’t want to add to that narrative. While cis...