For some, this is the first time you’ve had to spend extended time at home with the entire family. You’re balancing work from home, the kids, maybe even your parents and your significant other.
It’s the first time you’ve had to spend 24/7 with everybody and it’s not a family vacation.
And undoubtedly, someone is bound to get on someone’s … Read more...
The past three years have prepared me for this moment.
Or at least giving me a good crash course on what it is to redefine normal.
Three years ago, my mother passed away after a lengthy illness.
No lie, it was tough readjusting to life without her. I had been … Read more...
With COVID-19 moving employees away from the office and into their homes for a dose of social distancing, many parents find themselves working from home with the kids.
And every entrepreneur who works from home knows that running a business has its own set of unique challenges when you’re by yourself. Add school-aged children, the dog, and two cats, and … Read more...
True story. I started my business out of necessity. I had just left a nice job at a nonprofit organization for what I thought was a bigger and better opportunity with a new home builder. It was 2008 and the housing market was hot. Well, you know the story. The bottom fell out of the market and so did my … Read more...
I’ve been thinking a lot about community lately and how being embedded in one can change one’s life. For better or for worse.
Some communities can eat away at your soul and self-worth and believe it or not, it can be difficult leaving those spaces. Especially if it’s the only family or community you know. To abandon it would mean … Read more...
I remembering sharing with someone how the emotional eater doesn’t eat out of hunger. There’s no physical trigger that eludes to the fact that the body needs nourishment. Emotional eaters eat from a different place and it’s not hunger.
As someone who has been an emotional eater for a good solid three decades, in a moment of clarity it dawned … Read more...
When you are a woman living with fibroids, many are accustomed to wearing the longest and most absorbent pad on the market or a combination of a super heavy rated tampon and corresponding pad. When a friend jokingly said she goes through two pads a day, I honestly hated her for just a moment and pondered what life would be … Read more...
For Father’s Day, in support of dads everywhere, Boot Camp for New Moms (BCNM), along with Dads Adventure has launched #DadsGotThis, a campaign celebrating the unique ways men care for their family and deliver as dads.
To participate, moms simply submit a brief video or photo here highlighting something special Dad does to nurture his baby and family and tag … Read more...
For as long as I can remember, abortion has been an either-or topic. You were either for or against. There was no middle ground and both sides are equally passionate and rightfully so. You’re talking about an unborn child and you’re also talking about a woman’s body and her ability to choose.
Recently, I read a very thoughtful and well-written … Read more...
I’ve seen what happens to ‘nice girls’ who revolt played out on Netflix series and have even read about their questionable behavior in a few articles.
Shucks, I was that girl.
If you’ve ever had the opportunity to hear my presentation ‘Death of a Nice Girl,‘ you know that ‘being nice’ can lead women down a road filled … Read more...
