While there are many surprises and challenges that await you in motherhood, one of the biggest shocks may be time management, or the feeling of being overwhelmed. No matter how happy and fulfilled you may be as a new mom, if you don’t take time...
Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance: these are the very well-known five stages of grief, as postulated by Swiss psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross in her 1969 book On Death and Dying . At the time of the book’s publication, very little instruction was given in medical...
Meditation is a very common recommendation when you want to learn to manage stress. As beautiful and joyous as life can be, it can also be plain ol’ stressful. Whether it’s hefty mortgage payments, killer commutes, or bosses who don’t give us the credit we...
Our summer reads is here! It’s about halfway through summer. We’re checking up on you to see if you’ve reached your summer reading goal. Schools recommend that their students read each summer so why shouldn’t the parents? Imagine this: you’re sitting on the beach and...
You want to learn to deal with anger. Anger is a natural and healthy emotion that everyone feels from time to time. But when you find yourself being caught off guard with unexpected anger or feeling anger at a time when you can’t express it,...
It’s been 11 months, 49 weeks, or 343 days since I truly started my journey of healing from the inside out. Someone important to me (my therapist) told me if something didn’t drastically change I would be forty and suicidal. While I haven’t been suicidal,...