Career | Parenting | Self-care | Writing Life
May 29, 2015 | No comments
Turning 40 is a right of passage, its getting closer to middle age, which can elicit panic and fear amongst many people. I didn't want to be the person to freak-out on her fortieth birthday. The numbe...
Relationships
May 14, 2015 | No comments
I was one of the last women in my group of friends to become a mother. I would see my friends with their newborn babies, perplexed at the amount of energy and consumption of focus a baby could take. I...
Children | Gratitude | Motherhood
May 10, 2015 | No comments
Mother's Day became an official national holiday in the United States in 1914. We can thank Anna Jarvis for the holiday; she spent four years of her life advocating for mother's to have a day where th...
Communication | Skills and Strategies
Apr 16, 2015 | No comments
Pregnancy loss is a term to describe many different losses; miscarriages, both in first and second trimester, and later pregnancy loss, often referred to as neonatal loss, including stillborn babies a...
Skills and Strategies | Social Relationships
Apr 12, 2015 | 2 comments
Apologizing is both an art and a skill. Many people do it wrong. Historically, women apologize too often; for having an opinion, being assertive or accomplished, and for expressing their feeling...
Communication | Mental Health | Self-care | Skills and Strategies | Stress in Motherhood
Apr 02, 2015 | 1 comment
The past winter has been anything but typical in my household. Living in the Northeast, we've had massive amounts of snow, which equals lots of snow days and missed school. Add to the mix, colds and v...
Parenting
Mar 30, 2015 | No comments
When I first became a mother, thirteen years ago, I didn’t fully understand the saying I frequently heard, mostly from women, “enjoy this time, it won’t last forever.” Those words felt like a ...
Writing Life
Mar 15, 2015 | 5 comments
A year ago this week, I launched this site, MomsWellbeing.com. What you wouldn't know, is three years prior to the launch, the idea to start this site entered my mind. In between finishing work for th...
Children | Motherhood
Mar 08, 2015 | No comments
Most mornings I need two cups of coffee. The morning after daylight savings, I need three. I'm tired today. Daylight Savings Time (DST) is a relatively new concept, about 100 years old. The original i...
Marriage/Partnership
Feb 16, 2015 | 1 comment
Over the past week, I have summarized information on sexual health and functioning in Part I: Sexual Desire: What You Need To Know and Part II: A Healthy Sex Life. What You Need to Know and finally...
Marriage/Partnership
Feb 11, 2015 | 1 comment
In my twenty years of being a therapist, a common theme that shows up in the therapy room, is the misinformation and a lack of solid knowledge about sexual health. We are a culture saturated with m...
Communication | Marriage/Partnership | Mental Health | Stress in Motherhood
Feb 08, 2015 | No comments
We live in a world bombarded with images, ideas and influences about sex. It's challenging to sift through sexual truth versus sexual myth. Many people wonder what is a healthy and normal sex life. ...