Do you ever notice how you can be so perfectly in your stride one day, and the next moment, you completely unravel because you heard about or saw something or someone that triggered you? It could be a person or a thing, or even a sentence or a picture. Heck, it could even be the […]

“But I don’t wanna!” I would say whenever my mother would try to get me to eat my broccoli (or – let’s face it – anything green that wasn’t smothered in cheese whiz). Actually, it sounded more like, “I don’t wannaaaaaaaaaa!” (Recall your childhood emPHAsis on the As: No-aaaaaaaaaaaaa! Yes-aaaaaaaaaaaa! Ugh) As obnoxious as it […]

When was the last time you looked yourself in the eye (in the mirror, of course) and said, “Gosh, I love you!” Probably not recently – or ever, for that matter. Yeah. Me neither (it’s usually something closer to, “Wow you look tired!” and “Really, thighs? Really?) Yet I find myself wondering: Why the hell […]

Don’t you just love the Olympics? You can smell the anticipation in the air. So many of us countdown the years until the next event, devour the schedule, mark the sports we want to see, set our DVRs, and watch those amazing athletes perform their majestic dances, totally in their element…*sigh*… (cue Chariots of Fire […]

“We give time to what we love.” – John Bradshaw You know me. I give a lot of advice. Mostly unsolicited (sorry about that). I can’t help it. I’ve made so many mistakes, and learned so many profound lessons because of them. I feel it would be selfish of me to keep it all to […]

“Feelings are just visitors, let them come and go.” – Mooji I feel like I should be starting this post, “Dear diary.” Because the vomit that I’m about to spew out onto the page is very deep, personal, and raw. It’s not a side of me that I really like to admit exists, much less […]

“Sometimes you will never know the true value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” — Dr. Seuss Like so many moments over the course of the last four months, I was sitting in my daughter’s nursery the other evening, nursing her in her rocking chair. I was stroking her hair and marveling at […]

I have just about a million blog post ideas just waiting in the wings to write about. Ok, maybe not a million. It’s probably more like ten. Maybe fifteen. Pretty close to a million, if you ask me. But in the last week and a half, anytime I have tried to sit down to write […]

I wrote this post at nine weeks postpartum after delivering my sweet baby girl. I am now twelve and a half weeks postpartum, and am still a work in progress. Everything I wrote here still rings true. This post is for any woman who not only has ever given birth, but also, for every woman […]

Every mother has a labor story (and often, more than one). I heard at least 50 of them throughout my pregnancy, and probably a lot more before I ever even got pregnant. But I wasn’t listening. I mean, I was listening. Or rather, I was hearing the words without really listening, you know what I […]