Gratitude, gratitude, gratitude – ‘be grateful’, ‘express gratitude’, ‘write down your gratitude’…We hear about it, we’re told to do it, and we read about it – but I’ve come to believe many of us don’t fully understand how to use gratitude as a tool to manifest, nor do we fully understand why so many experts […]
As a society we’ve become obsessed with academic excellence, sports and extracurricular activities. The crazy ‘race to college’ that starts putting pressure on our kids way too early is literally stripping teens of their joy. As parents we need shift our focus and put an equal amount of time, energy and money into their emotional […]
It would be a vast understatement to say women’s rights are in the national spotlight. There’s no escaping it. Whether it’s inflammatory remarks tweeted by our nation’s president himself, or the stories of misconduct that have birthed the powerful #metoo campaign and inspired commentary from everyone from Oprah to high school girls calling out the […]
How embracing a messy, imperfect life can teach our daughters the beauty, courage and strength behind owning our fears. Sometimes the busy-ness of life gets in the way of connecting with our teens and we feel stonewalled between the hecticness of school, work, activities, meal planning, etc. We wonder, “why aren’t we connecting?” or “how […]
Grace has become one of my favorite words and my biggest goal these days is to deal with life with Grace. So what do I think of when I hear the word Grace. To me Grace is the ultimate display of control of thoughts, reactions and behaviors. It’s having clarity of who you are and […]
I can’t tell you exactly the moment that I realized I could no longer live a lie. We were the illusion of the perfect family: handsome husband, happy wife, four beautiful children. I was the master of making everything look flawless and easy and hiding the one area that made me secretly miserable. The marriage that […]