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Dear you, I don't know your name. But I think I might know your evening. The one where everyone finally sleeps, and the house goes quiet, and for the first time all day there's no one needing anything from you — and instead of resting, you just sit there in the dark...
The specific moment I stopped performing okayness — and what happened when I finally let the truth out.
Bringing your child for counseling, is this necessary? There’s a part of parenting that no one really prepares you for. It's not the school stuff, not the schedules, and not even the usual “how to raise your kids well” kind of advice. I’m talking about the moments...
Lately, I’ve been noticing something that I don’t think I was ready to fully acknowledge before. My life is starting to open up in a way it hasn’t in years. My eldest just graduated from college, which still feels a bit unreal when I think about it, because I can...
I didn’t grow up thinking this is how my life would look, and I think that’s something I still catch myself processing every now and then, especially on days when everything feels a little heavier than usual and I just want to pause and ask, “Wait… how did I end up...
There is a moment in every transformation that feels like disorientation. Not because something is wrong, but because something old has stopped working, and something new has not yet taken form. Most people call this being lost. It isn’t. It is being between selves....