On my latest Instagram Live, a sweet mama reached out to me to say she was struggling with clutter – not because she isn’t a tidy person, but because she has two boys at home with her 24/7. Believe me, I get it!  As a boy mom myself, I often find myself chasing after little […]

Ohhh, summer!  How I love to celebrate summer!  With the unofficial start of summer being Memorial Day, 4th of July being right in the middle summer month, and the unofficial wrap up being Labor Day, it feels like there’s always a reason to party during the warmest months of the year.   Last year, I wrote […]

Lately I’m learning that the stories you set out to write oftentimes aren’t the ones you actually end up writing.  But that’s a good thing.  Allow me to explain. When I was a senior in high school, my sociology teacher gave our class an assignment to imagine our life in 10 years.  “What do you […]

Fact: we all have an inner critic.   Perhaps some of them are louder than others, but sure enough, we all have one.  Your inner critic is that negative voice inside that fills our mind with self-criticism, blame, and shame.  I don’t think I need to point out how destructive that can be if you pay […]

Is it possible to learn how to forgive yourself?  Especially if, for most of your life, you have struggled to do so?  Forgiving others may come easily (depending on the person and the situation), but I have found that many of my clients find it especially difficult to forgive themselves. Forgiving yourself requires that you […]

Question:  Should a mom leave her young kids for a girls weekend even if she is quite anxious about being away from them?  A friend recently messaged me about this, as she began to feel uneasy about being away from her children for the first time overnight.  She told me that she is struggling with […]

On a recent Instagram live, a reader shared she was having trouble adjusting to the idea to her dad starting to date again.  You see, her mom had passed away about a year and a half ago, and though she was accepting (as much as one can be) of her mom’s death because it ended […]

One of the reasons I started blogging about self-care is that it’s what I needed more of in my life.  One of the things that most got in the way of me practicing self-care?  Mom guilt.  I was in the thick of it just a few years ago with my boys; they were probably three […]

I constantly encourage people to email me, and/or message me on Instagram or Facebook if they have therapy or mental health questions (or any questions for that matter!) because you are the people I want to be a resource to…you are the people who matter to me.  If something is troubling you or causing you […]