Earlier today I shared this post on the Not Your Average Mom Facebook page: It was a pretty popular post with lots of women really relating to it. I can definitely relate to it. It’s really easy to lose yourself in motherhood. Combine the needs of your kids with the need to work and make […]
Mental Health
Making Changes in 2020 Blog Series — Day 1: The Accountability Mirror
We have a hashtag in my membership group. It’s #TTBAGU. What does that stand for? Time To Be A Grown Up. One of the things I am working really hard on with myself and all my clients is taking ownership of all the sh*t that’s not going the way we want it to go. The […]
A Significant Observation From My Teenager
It has been almost two and a half years since I stopped drinking. I stopped for a bunch of reasons. My body was no longer tolerating it. To be honest, my body never really tolerated alcohol well to begin with. But I was forgetting things and portions of my night after just a couple drinks. […]
Five Mindset Shifts To Make About Exercise In The New Year
I’ve become pretty flexible in my thinking now that I’m fifty and have been around the block a few times and have lots of successes and even more failures under my belt. But there is one thing I am not flexible on in my thinking. Exercise needs to be a part of your regular routine. […]
Three Things
I am on the last day of a 4-day swim meet in Boston. My oldest two are swimming. Swim meets are very long. They are similar to wrestling tournaments and gymnastic and track meets. The format of the meet is prelims in the morning, and then the top 20 in each event come back and […]
Anxious Kid – 1 Anxiety – 0
Two days ago I wrote this post about kids and anxiety. In that post, I used my little anxious buddy (with permission) as an example of how anxiety can really be misinterpreted as a behavior problem or a parenting problem. I didn’t really intend for the post to be only about my buddy, but rather […]