Every Sunday is self-reflection day for me. And I’ve also started implementing this practice with all my NYAFC clients. But in order to really think about how the past week has been going for all of us, I have started employing the Keep, Start, Stop approach to this practice. It’s also called the Stop, Keep, […]
Lessons I've Learned
“I Do Feel You Have A Good Shot.”
If you’ve been around here for a while you know I had a little brother who died when he was three years old. I was sixteen at the time, and a junior in high school. My brother’s name was Christopher, and he was diagnosed with leukemia at about eighteen months old, had chemo and radiation […]
5 Simple Ways To Begin The Habit Of Meal Prepping
There is no doubt that meal prep is a great way to save time and money and create healthy options for you and your family that you can heat up quickly on busy week nights or just grab and eat. But if you’ve never done it before, it can seem overwhelming. Especially if you venture […]
Do You Have Good Sleep Hygiene?
The first time I heard the term “sleep hygiene” was about 20 years ago. I was sitting in a therapist’s office after having been released from Silver Hill, a psychiatric hospital in New Canaan, Connecticut where I had been for a week. I had just been diagnosed with major depressive disorder — major depression — […]
What Are You Really Depriving Yourself Of?
In my experience, we are at the point where many people completely fall off the wagon as far as resolutions are concerned. I’m not a fan of resolutions — because they rarely result in true change — but I am a fan of evolution. I believe in always trying to be a better mother, a […]
Your Kids Really Love Each Other (Even When It Doesn’t Seem That Way)
Sometimes your kids annoy each other on purpose and do shit over and over and over again and it’s infuriating because you know you have taught them right from wrong and they behave at school and are respectful to other adults and your friends will drive them home from practice or something and tell you […]
