by Mary Carey | Mar 13, 2025 | Compassion, connection, disappointment, empathy, friend, friends, friendship, grief, grieving, mental illness, narcissism, Relationships
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,...
by Mary Carey | Nov 14, 2024 | family, Motherhood, Parenthood, parenting
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...
by Mary Carey | Jul 11, 2024 | adult friendships, attachment, communication, connection, empathy, friend, friends, friendship, intimacy, Motherhood, Parenthood, parenting, Relationships
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...
by Mary Carey | Jun 4, 2024 | Compassion, empathy, materialism, mental illness, Relationships
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...
by Mary Carey | May 14, 2024 | communication, connection, empathy, family, friendship, intimacy, materialism, quality time, Relationships
I have a quick question for you, and please don’t do the math. Just give me a ballpark guess of how many weeks you think are in an average lifetime? I was listening to the podcast, “We Can Do Hard Things” and learned the shocking answer. While one of the hosts guessed...