Female Empowerment: A Letter to My Daughter
Recent events and a friend’s very powerful post have me thinking a lot about empowering our girls to become women....
Got Sleep?
According to the National Institutes of Health, 60 million Americans experience sleep problems, ranging from occasional to chronic. That’s roughly...
Stop Living in Fear
Fear comes from the Enemy, and it plagues all of us to varying degrees. There are at least as many...
The Orlando Shooting: A Common Enemy
I started doing research for this post at midnight, after lying in bed thinking about it for over an hour...
Live in It or Learn from It: Overcoming Parental Abuse and Neglect
As you might imagine, I talk with people on the regular who were abused, neglected, abandoned and/or betrayed by their...
Be Vulnerable with Your Kids
Let them see your human side. Be real. We want our kids to look up to us and think that...
Life is Like a Rubik’s Cube
Last year, Santa brought our son a Rubik’s Cube. I forgot how much I love that thing! The minute I...
How can grandparents be so much better than they were as parents?
Tonight’s ATAQ: “How is it that a set of parents who did such a poor job, were neglectful, were abusive,...
Leave it to Beaver vs. Shameless: What is Normal and How Do I Get There?
One of the most common questions I’m asked as a psychologist is if this or that experience, thought, feeling or...
“Mommy Is the Murderer!”
“Mommy Is the Murderer!” If I told you that I said these words tonight to my husband and children at...
