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. […]
Mental Health
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 my 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 […]
The Anxious Child
One of my kids was crippled by anxiety as a child. He had to check to see where I was every five minutes and multiple times throughout the night, couldn’t have any doors closed if I wasn’t in the room with him, wouldn’t go anywhere unfamiliar by himself, and was terrified of elevators. He had […]
Reality
I have gotten so much better about staying on top of the house. BUT… This past week we had a snow day on Monday, a delayed opening on Tuesday, early dismissal on Friday, 4 kids in 15 different Y swim practices, a Y swim meet, middle school swim team time trials, 2 wrestling practices, a […]