2020: The Year of the Home. As much as we'd love to live in denial, the fact of the matter is that 2020 has been spent largely (you guessed it...) at home. For some of us, we revel at the lack of options and appreciate spending ample time in the home with our families. For others of us, it is painstaking to try and think about spending another minute staring at the four walls of our living room. Whichever camp you fall in, you have probably had days that feel dismal, boring,

Here I am, 3 and a half years into this mom gig and just about every day I'm plagued with a bad case of the "shoulds". I should be waking up earlier, should be spending more active time with the kids, should be making healthier meals, should be working harder at strict sleep schedules and screen time and... and...and.... The list of things that my head tells me I should do is never-ending. Some clever therapist before me called this syndrome "shoulding all over yourself". (Cu

All at once the world changed. Mid March, my family was finally recovered from what felt like an eternity of one sickness after another and were finally ready to go out and conquer the world. Needless to say, the following week none of that became possible. So many aspects of life changed due to COVID-19 in our family: job loss, career redirection, parenting and working from home, and sheltering in place with a baby and a toddler. While I won't get into the details of the uni

As I sit here on my couch in June 2020, writing my first blog on my professional website for my private practice, I am baffled at where I am right now. Not literally, of course...I've actually been on the couch a lot lately as we near our fifth month in the midst of a global pandemic known as CoronaVirus or COVID-19. Most everyone is sitting at home, trying the best they can to care for themselves, their children, and their daily responsibilities while shouldering the weight