How to Be The Giving Tree with Boundaries
You may never view this Shel Silverstein classic in the same way again. Learn how to love unconditionally with a boundless heart whilst still maintaining healthy boundaries.
The Problem With Cinderella
When your children can take care of themselves, they can show others how to do the same and assist those who can’t do so on their own. This is just one small step in building and supporting community as a whole and offering a clean perspective, pun intended.
How to Be Heard When It Feels Like No One Wants to Hear About Your Pain
We deserve to be listened to. This single tool can allow one to feel heard without feeling like an emotional drain or burden to family and friends. Being listened to can lead to profound emotional processing and physical healing. We can create the support we need and it’s easier than we think.
Insuring a Gun Solution
A simple concept to create an irrefutable gun solution that could end mass shootings and protect the Second Amendment in the process.
Privacy Protection in the Aftermath of the Great Hack of Facebook
Signing up for any app gives access to our contacts and may put our marginalized friends and family at risk. The importance of knowing why privacy matters in an inequitable world even when you have nothing to hide and desire transparency.
I’m Here, Looking for a Hand to Hold That Isn’t a Scythe
A tender and hopeful story of love between a mother and daughter in times of uncertainty.
Why I Deserve to Talk About My Own Death
There is value in allowing the act of truth and grace to infiltrate the process of death, dying, and suffering.
The ABCs of Mom Groups
Feel validation and support as you nod in knowing while reading about the perils of mean moms, whilst you glean insight on how to move past the mama-drama-trauma train and laugh it off.
Taking it From the Rear
An amusing short story featuring a fender bender in the midst of a menopause meltdown.
The Over-Scheduled Family
Show me an over-scheduled child and I will show you a child with one or more of the following: anxiety, sleep disorders, behavioral issues, sadness, and/or anger. How one family took time off and gained more than they lost.
When Your Life Learning Child Proves You Wrong
A short piece on the long term effects of allowing child led education through self-motivated intrinsic learning.