Saying Goodbye: For the Ones Who Are Going, and the Ones Who Stay
You cannot prevent the hole that death creates in someone’s absence, in your own. You can decide what you put into the world before you leave it.
Halloween Is a Lot: A Neurodivergent Family Survival Guide
Halloween is not one event. It’s about 4,000 new transitions and experiences over an entire (very long) month wearing a costume.
When Home Doesn't Feel Safe
Home is supposed to be where you can exhale.
But what happens when home is also where you learned to listen for footsteps, study someone's face before you speak, and recognize the difference between the sound of a door closing normally and the sound of a door closing when something is about to happen?
Domestic violence isn't only about what happens during the worst moments. It's also about what happens in all the moments spent anticipating them, and children can become remarkably good at that anticipation.
A child doesn't have to be physically hit to learn that home isn't safe.
Is It ODD, or Is Your Kid Just… Being a Kid?
What’s the difference between a kid who won’t, a kid who can’t, and a kid who’s struggling?
Getting to Know Yourself, One Cycle at a Time
The menstrual cycle isn't a personality test or a 28-day countdown to becoming unbearable. It's a constant conversation between the brain, ovaries, uterus, and hormones, one they have on repeat every month. Learning your own pattern can help you understand what's happening in your body and, sometimes, in your mind.
ADHD, Menopause & the Executive Functioning Cliff
If you've spent your whole life being told you have it all together and suddenly you very much do NOT feel like you have it all together…you are not alone. Sometimes midlife doesn't create a brand-new problem. Sometimes it makes an old one much harder to compensate for.
Two Nervous Systems Walk Into A Marriage
We don't just bring ourselves into relationships. We bring our nervous systems, too. All those complicated wires that control so much of what we think, feel, and do can run hot. And not in a good way.
Sharing A Diagnosis: What Do Kids Actually Need To Know?
Kids can handle more truth than we sometimes think—but they need truth they can understand.
Our Brains, Our Periods & the Things Nobody Told Us
For a girl who already has a brain that says “I will absolutely do this thing… eventually, probably… wait, what was I doing?” her period can add another variable to a mind-body system that is already working really hard.