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Mental Illness Conversation Pitfalls- 6 Things to Avoid Saying

Mar 13, 2025 | Compassion, connection, disappointment, empathy, friend, friends, friendship, grief, grieving, mental illness, narcissism, Relationships

A Parent’s Reckoning

Nov 14, 2024 | family, Motherhood, Parenthood, parenting

How to Enjoin My Non-joiners to Join Something (?)

Jul 11, 2024 | adult friendships, attachment, communication, connection, empathy, friend, friends, friendship, intimacy, Motherhood, Parenthood, parenting, Relationships

Six Ways to Know You are Suffering from Money Poison

Jun 4, 2024 | Compassion, empathy, materialism, mental illness, Relationships

The Magic That Happens When You Uncreate

May 14, 2024 | communication, connection, empathy, family, friendship, intimacy, materialism, quality time, Relationships

Sequelae and the Big Try

Apr 24, 2024 | Compassion, connection, empathy, Forgiveness, friendship, intimacy, Reconciliation, Redemption, Relationships

Which of These 26 Maladaptive Ways Are You?

Apr 9, 2024 | adult friendships, attachment, communication, Compassion, connection, empathy, faith, friendship, intimacy, materialism, Relationships

New & Improved Advice for My Sons

Mar 17, 2024 | family, Motherhood, Parenthood, parenting, sexual harassment

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Mental Illness Conversation Pitfalls- 6 Things to Avoid Saying

Kate Bowler, a professor at Duke Divinity School, who was diagnosed with an incurable cancer when her child was a toddler, is a gifted author. Among her best work is 8 Things Not to Say to Someone with Cancer. I can’t recommend this enough, because maybe, like me,...

A Parent’s Reckoning

We all love and are proud of our children. For some of us – or maybe many of us – with adult children, there comes a reckoning. We may not have had a clear picture of exactly how their lives would turn out, but maybe we had subconsciously created our own dreams and...

How to Enjoin My Non-joiners to Join Something (?)

I had a beloved aunt who, late in her life, lost a loved one, and that loss devastated her. It was a punch from which she never recovered. We lived in different states and would often talk by phone. I tried so many things to lift her spirits, but her sadness was too...

Six Ways to Know You are Suffering from Money Poison

Can we suffer from money poisoning? How would we know when money stops being something we use, and instead becomes something that hurts or even poisons us? Money isn’t poisoning us when it pays our bills, buys groceries, gets the car fixed and puts a roof over our...

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