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A Very Important Lesson For My Daughter

September 14, 2019 by not your average mom 5 Comments

Number 5 has always been a good sleeper. She learned to sleep on her own when she was a baby — we never had to make her cry it out. One day around five months old, she slept through the night. And that was it. There was a phase when she was two or three […]

Filed Under: Funny Stuff, Lessons I've Learned, Life at My House, Parenting, Sound Mind Sound Body Tagged With: insomnia, sleep, sleep anxiety in kids, sleep hygiene

Do You Have Good Sleep Hygiene?

January 14, 2019 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

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 — […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Mental Health, Self Care, Sound Mind Sound Body Tagged With: sleep, sleep habits, sleep hygiene, sleep routines

Get Your A$$ To Bed

January 4, 2019 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

Making yourself a priority means taking care of yourself. Taking care of yourself doesn’t mean going away for the weekend because you are hours away from a nervous breakdown. Think about, for example, your car. This is really simplified and not the best analogy, but if you are taking good care of your car, you […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Mental Health, Parenting, Self Care, Sound Mind Sound Body Tagged With: sleep, sleep and weight loss, sleep deprivation and weight loss

A (Literal) Wake Up Call

December 19, 2018 by not your average mom 1 Comment

Well, I’ve had a wake up call this past week. Another one. This isn’t the first time I’ve had this a-ha moment, either. I just fell back into old routines, and I guess I kind of forgot. Or maybe I thought I was invincible or super human or something. But I’m not. And to get […]

Filed Under: Sound Mind Sound Body Tagged With: discipline, sleep, sleep deprivation, sleep hygiene

A Wake Up Call (All Puns Intended)

November 6, 2017 by not your average mom 3 Comments

I had an a-ha moment yesterday. Why I need to be slammed over the head with these things repeatedly before I get them, I don’t know. But that’s how it seems to work for me. I have a history of depression.  Fifteen or so years ago, I was hospitalized (for the first time) and consequently […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Mental Health, Parenting, Self Care, Sound Mind Sound Body Tagged With: depression, exhaustion, facebook, Instagram, phone, quality time, sleep, television, TV, zamboni

You’re Allowed To Take A Break

August 30, 2017 by not your average mom 3 Comments

For me, the first day of school usually brings along with it the (self-imposed) expectation  that I need to both make and check everything off a mile-long to-do list. Like every thing I couldn’t get to over the course of the summer needs to be completed by the time the kids get off the bus. […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Life at My House, Mental Health, Parenting, Self Care, Sound Mind Sound Body Tagged With: depression, emotional, empty cup, expectations, rehab, rest, sleep

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