Driving home from vacation one summer several years ago, my partner said, “I am not sure we will have enough […]

It can be difficult to have compassion for our hurt parts. We may feel we should be over things that […]

As I was starting to recover from parenting burnout and getting more mindful about my emotions, I often wondered, “Why […]

Deeper hurts have a way of sneaking up on us. We can often experience a deeper hurt from a past […]

For many years, my partner and I were caught in a painful cycle. Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy refers to this […]

Mindfulness can bring awareness to unhelpful patterns in our thinking. One of my own unhelpful patterns that I became aware […]

Even after having a regular mindful meditation practice for three years, I can still struggle with stress. Recently, I was […]

In my recovery from parenting burnout, I learned an invaluable truth. That when I was struggling, it wasn’t because I […]

It’s often easy to be unaware of our stress levels, how much stress we carry and how it is impacting […]

For years, I did not admit that I was a perfectionist. I saw people I loved strangled by perfectionism, and […]

Depression is uniquely painful for its ability to keep us in isolation.  Depression is like a dark cunning character in […]

Struggling to be present amidst life’s chaos? For most of my life, I lived with my mind in the past […]