I stood there numb as my daughter cried. I felt like a robot or an unfeeling monster. I couldn’t find […]

As my children pitter-pattered around the house, my smile faded to a strained grimace. My internal mood shifted like storm […]

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 […]