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When my first kid was a few weeks old, I was sobbing on the couch and my husband was arguing with me instead of helping me, so I stood up with the baby to get some tissue from the bathroom and pulled the bathroom door completely off with one hand. Now , the bathroom had been hastily added on by the previous owners and the door was made of plywood and moonshine, but still, I aped the door out of its frame while holding an infant. It both amused and freaked us the fuck out. N

I get way nicer to my partner when I reconnect with myself, too. I'm always the last to know when I'm spiraling. Other people observe me...

I've been writing, but not sharing it. Partly, because I'm mid-process in a few novels, so unless you're reading beta versions for me,...

The instinct to grip hard and never let go to keep them (me) feeling safe is contrary to how growth works. My job is to let go just as soon as I can so they can fly on their own. If I keep holding them to me, we'll both stay stuck in the nest, or plummet to the ground in a tangle of broken wings.

My stupid morning started at midnight.

Radical kindness + take care of your own heart + keep perspective on where we are in history.

I think it's an exaggeration to say time heals all wounds. Some can't and you just learn to build your new self around them.

We had an option and we chose this. Bruised all over inside, soggy around the edges. I am grieving.

In marriage counseling, we've been doing Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy - which is basically identifying your triggers- where you...

It started about a week ago, this sense of doom. The kids were getting ready to go back to school, and instead of tasting my impending...

I'm trying to make friends in our new home (3.5 years new) and it's haarrrrdddd. I'm only mildly social and pretty busy with kids, pets,...

Every time I go to a Pride event, I leave feeling amazing. The radical love and acceptance is so vivid, I can taste it in the air. It's a...

I don't know how to function when my kid is struggling. I'm sure it's condependent and there's a better way, but when my kids are in...

I haven't been writing because I don't know how to begin to share what I've been going through. Also, I'm hesitant because I'm not sure...

That's what the therapist for my ten year-old told me tonight, when I was hemming and hawing over whether it was too much for me to ask...

I woke up with a headache and the feeling that leaving my bed today would be ambitious. It could be from the pressure changes; it’s...

I long to have a place inside me that feels safe, no matter what is happening outside of me. A little island that's always dry and warm,...

Can she live up to what we all need her to be? GOOD MOM has big shoes to fill, but she must take tiny, quiet steps. Does she know what...

I've been hearing that magical shift that happens after forty for decades. I had friends who swore once they turned forty, they stopped...

I'm worried that this will all sound trite on paper, but it feels big and light in my chest, so I'm going to try to express it the best I...