Tag: mental health
Mommy, Will You Play With Me?
“Mommy, will you play with me?” I hear this question at least five times before I enjoy my breakfast. When my kindergartener gets home...
Postpartum Mental Health Awareness with Riley Children’s Health
As a mom suffering from postpartum depression, Tracey McInnes made it a personal and professional goal to help other women through the dark fog...
Finding My Calm with Mindfulness
I don’t know what it is with her voice -the tone or the melodic phrasing- but listening to Tamara Levitt tell me to find...
A New Pandemic Love Language
Leave it to a global pandemic to alter what we consider fundamental and comprehensive truth. In his book The Five Love Languages, Gary Chapman...
The Gut-Brain Connection: A Low FODMAP Diet Improved My Anxiety
The human body is beautiful, complex…and weird. I predicted that age and stress would bring changes to my muscles and mind, but I never...
Forest Bathing: Finding Peace Among Trees
Forest bathing saved my mental health. Whenever I mention this to people, I typically get a strange look accompanied by a question like, “you...
Apologizing To Our Children When We’re Not Perfect (Which is Quite...
When I make a parenting mistake, I own it, and I apologize to my children. Notice how I didn’t say “if I make a...
Unpopular Opinion: I Go to Bed Angry
“Never go to bed angry,” the old saying goes. I glare at my husband over the top of my laptop. I've just settled in...
Eight Common Things Women Go Through During Infertility Treatments
Even to this day, I look at the clock at 7:00 AM and immediately think about women sitting anxiously in a doctor’s office waiting...
Coming to Terms with My Son’s Autism Diagnosis
I am still coming to terms with my son’s autism diagnosis.
I was recently on a girl’s trip. These women know more about my...
I Found Jesus in the Rubble
My four-year-old thinks that God lives in her butt. This is a non-theological yet logical conclusion in her developing mind. God made her. God...
In All the Chaos, I Needed Simple
Life is a little overwhelming, crazy, exhausting, noisy. Choose your synonyms there, but you get the idea. Going on year three of this pandemic,...
I Love a Non-Binary Child
I love a non-binary child, and you probably do too. They may not have told you yet, but they will when they’re ready.
The child...
Mindful Mornings: Three Habits to Add to Your Morning Routine
If you’re reading this as someone who doesn’t include themselves in the “morning person” club… hear me out.
I was you. I have set my...