A Mom’s Mental Load: Carrying your own Vasilisa Doll
I just got back from a vacation. My first beach holiday in years. It was to honour my 50th birthday, not as a break from life. Yes, i wanted to slow down and relax, just not to escape my life. Vacations are not meant to to get a break from our everyday life, but to enhance it with a dose of pleasure and adventure. As a global citizen, this is also a privilege to experience…
How to get Ready for the Fall: Stepping into Being a High School Mom
September is the second January, a time for new beginnings, and also the ending of things. One has to go with the other; one in fact necessitates the other. As…
Lean into Love: The Ultimate Ultimatum
I’m not one for reality TV shows. I think they sometimes feel too close to my work life and I want to be able to get a break by immersing…
Unleash and Surrender. Healing the Mother Wound
I’ve been sharing here about the loss of my mom this past year. I haven’t really described more about my actual relationship with my mom, and one thing I’ve left…
My Lost Self
“What must I give more death to today, in order to generate more life? What do I know should die, but am hesitant to allow to do so? What must…
The Connection of Self-Compassion and Trauma Healing – Look for the Parallels
I like finding patterns in things. I think i much prefer knitting a simple pattern to a complicated puzzle. I like collecting the same shells at a time, and all…
Gates of Grief Work
Last fall, l I devoured the show From Scratch. It was supposed to be eye candy, and a guilty pleasure show to watch. Does this ever happen to you -…
Surrendering into That Kind of Mom
I want to be that mom. That mom that is always ready to have her kids’ gaggle of friends over on a whim or moment’s notice. That mom who has…
A Year of Grace and Grief
I had no idea at the start of the year just how much the word Grace was going to be the perfect word to hold me. Funny how that happens…