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About motherhood, self-maintenance (aka self-care), plus tools to cultivate a calm, connect with your Self, so that you can show up as the mom and woman you most want to be.
Good advice for making tough choices
Sometimes we are faced with impossible choices. The ones that bring us to our knees and make us wonder how we can ever find a “right” answer when it all feels hard and impossible. The sun was setting through the floor to ceiling windows blanketing my students in...
Good advice for making tough choices
Sometimes we are faced with impossible choices. The ones that bring us to our knees and make us wonder how we can ever find a “right” answer when it all feels hard and impossible. The sun was setting through the floor to ceiling windows blanketing my students in...
Hey, Magnus’s turned away from me at bedtime when I felt his body shudder with sobs. “You’re sad, aren’t you luv?” I say to him. He turned to face me, his face crumpling as his eyes welled up. “Yes, I miss Colby so much,” he says through sobs. Yesterday we experienced...
How to create refuge within
“Feet,” Sarah said, “I think feet are the most beautiful part of the body.” I gaped at her. Feet? Dirty stinky feet? My 7 year old mind could not grasp this as I stared bewildered at my best friend Bissy’s older sister. Sarah was 12, and already kind of quirky and...
Summer Solstice Ritual
Today is the Summer Solstice marking another season, the passing of time, and often a time of reflection and ritual. I'm not really a "woo-woo" kind of gal despite being deeply spiritual. However I love using the solstices as markers to reflect, take stock, and either...
How to break the cycle of dysfunction
I put the rag down I was dusting the dresser with to move my phone. This message popped up: “When loved ones in your life are making stupid choices…keep calm, getting stressed will only make you feel bad and change nothing.” Followed by crying emojis and saying they...
Struggling with self-care is likely from boundaries and codependency
Having time for self-maintenance (self-care) seems to be one of the most coveted and elusive goals of mamas. If this sounds familiar to you, it's likely because of one of these 3 reasons: You struggle with boundaries and codependency so your time is overtaxed because...
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