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I am suddenly at a place in my life where I realize that life is harder for all the respect I haven’t been asking for. I find myself irked because my kid doesn’t respect me. Or my husband takes me for granted. Or my Mother just expects I’ll do that thing for her. But I…
Anyone notice how hard it is to “make” people do things? You know, your mother/father/sister/brother/spouse/child/friend really needs to take care of themselves by exercising more/eating less/taking responsibility for their own stuff/ditching the toxic spouse and/or calling you up to hear your amazing wisdom more often!? What we come to find out however, is that, just…
My daughter is just starting elementary school now in Pre-K. I am again besieged by notifications and permission slips galore just like back when Eamon was in Kindergarten and there was “homework”. See my recent repost of my piece Kindergarten Homework here. All sorts of good intentions being bantered back and forth between educator and…
I admittedly had a tough first month of Summer. And if you read the intro to yesterday’s post, you’ll understand that this is a recent self-doubt storm unfolding. When I took a harder look at what caused this, I’d say it was the result of a pretty bad should storm. My own inhumanity to myself…
This past month, I amped up the volume on self-care. Something shifted that said it’s time to do more to show myself I care about me. So I did. Used to be when I went in to get my pedicure, I’d consider getting other services done but I’d talk myself right out of them….
Last weekend, I was chatting away with two mothers about when our children misbehave. I declared my son demands proof of my backbone at the most inopportune times. Like when my pregnancy hormones give me maximum wobbly levels or my self doubts have my self-esteem hovering at my ankles. He senses my humanity, feels insecure,…
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