Being a mom often comes with this false expectation that we should be able to do everything and be able to BE everything for our family. The sad reality though is that those kinds of expectations only help to reinforce poor mental health care in mothers. According to the CDC, 1 in 10 US women… [Read More]
6 things to help calm the chaos
There’s a weight pressing against my chest. It’s been there for awhile. It’s rough out there right now. I hesitate to even open up my computer because there’s just SO MUCH — opinions, arguments, facts, lies, half-truths. I can’t deal with it and I know a lot of you can’t either. And that’s just the… [Read More]
Life is a journey and I’m still learning
As a woman in her late 30s, I am constantly amazed at how much I’m still growing, learning, changing. I know that learning is a life long process, but it’s easy to assume you know who you are…at least for me. This past week I was able to spend some time in my creative, work… [Read More]
The struggle to take back me (and my word for 2015)
Over the past week, I thought I was just going to scrap my word/phrase of the year. I’ve been irritated and not my best self for the last month or so and figured why push myself on the feeling better, being better front. We all want that, but sometimes we just need to BE in… [Read More]
I ran into an old friend – me
This weekend was a weekend unlike any weekend I’d had in awhile. I saw someone I hadn’t seen in quite a long time. Me. You see, this weekend I had a chance to connect with all facets of my life. I had business moments, family moments, marriage moments and friendship moments. It was a miracle to… [Read More]
The box can’t hold me in
I am a woman, wife, mother, writer, marketer, friend, daughter, business woman, theater lover, and so much more. I like to drink a lot of coffee, read smutty books, laugh until my stomach hurts, dance, spend money, smooch my children and my husband, and put my toes in the sand. I don’t like to clean,… [Read More]
Ch Ch Ch Changes…What the heck is going on?
Something is happening. Things are different. My body is different. Of course, much of that is the fact that I had two children in the last five years. Everything is a tad off. Pants don’t fit the way they used to. Shirts cling in areas they didn’t used to cling. Embarrassingly enough, even my underwear… [Read More]
Day 2 – Something I Love About Myself
Something I love about myself. I’ll admit it. This one was hard for me.I feel awkward putting it out in public that I love something about me. At the very forefront, I feel a little self-absorbed. However, considering this is an “assignment” and we live in a world where people are much more down on… [Read More]
Accepting Who You Are
My dear friend, Erin, over at Cultivating Rosebuds is in the midst of a dilemma. It seems her 3 year old daughter has recently discovered that she doesn’t have blue eyes like her mommy, but rather brown eyes like her daddy. This is not making little Miss H happy and it has continued on for… [Read More]
