By the time we reach our later 30s, 40s and early 50s life begins to look much differently. Middle Adulthood is the stage of life when you have passed the growth during your twenties and the focus becomes working more towards sustaining routines and fine tuning your goals and the community you want around you. […]
Being a teenager in today’s world is very difficult. Besides dealing with mass school shootings and now the uncertainty of the Country due to politicians, they face many daily challenges. Many teenagers believe they must grow up and have jobs with fancy titles, make a lot of money and drive fancy cars to be a […]
There’s this moment many parents of athletes know too well: your kid is doing all the right things. They’re going to practice. They’re watching film. They’re trying hard. But something’s… off. They’re snapping more easily. Their motivation has tanked. They come home from training mentally fried and emotionally flat. They’re still performing – but just […]
I recently read an article that made me feel very seen – in a slightly uncomfortable, “okay, wow, calm down” kind of way. It was about how stress hijacks our ability to be productive. And while it was aimed at professionals in general, I couldn’t stop thinking about how closely it mirrors what I see […]
Let’s just say it: life doesn’t come with a manual. Not one that actually works, anyway. We might get advice. We might get expectations. We might get Instagram highlight reels. But most of us are out here learning as we go – trying our best, messing things up, figuring it out, and then trying again. […]
Remember 2020? When the world shut down, and suddenly we had no choice but to see what had always been there? We saw the pressure working women carry – laid bare. We saw the unpaid labor, the juggling act, the mental load. We saw how women were leaving the workforce in staggering numbers, not because […]
There was a time in my life, early into parenthood, that I found myself at the mercy of this new identity as “mom.” I was grasping for a better understanding of what I was feeling and experiencing and I stumbled upon a blog post that ended up being one of the most validating pieces of […]
Of all the people I expected to offer me life advice that would stop me mid-scroll, it was not Billy Joel. And yet – there I was. Standing in my kitchen, half-caffeinated, doing five things at once, when Vienna came on. And suddenly, Billy Joel was speaking directly to my inner overachiever like some kind […]
The Surgeon General’s Office for the United States has issued a statement that loneliness is an epidemic in America. They note it started prior to the pandemic and that it significantly increased during the pandemic. I see many teenagers who report feeling bored, anxious, depressed and lonely. While many of us attempt to return to […]
Over the past years children and teenagers have had to cope with a lot of emotions. The main emotions they have been facing are anxiety, depression, fear and grief. These emotions have reached epidemic levels (CDC) and many children and teenagers are requiring psychotherapy. However, the number of children and teens needing therapy is so […]
