"I didn't need my family to need me differently. I just needed to see myself clearly enough to stop chasing something that wasn't actually gone." Somewhere between an airport, a rental car that wouldn't shift right, and a long-awaited reunion with my son, I had a...
A photo journal prompt waits for you at the end. I've been a collector all my life. My collections include books, skills, art supplies for hobbies I tried once and didn't return to, ideas that arrive in the middle of an ordinary afternoon and find a parking spot in...
“The freedom I feel to be my authentic self comes from a place of trust.” Without consciously being aware of it, I lost trust in my abilities and myself. Years of teaching, parenting, and leading — layered with the hormonal shifts of perimenopause — had quietly...
“We both were in transition and neither of us knew the right way to move toward our new adult relationship.” Raising teens changes the relationship in increments so small you don’t notice until it’s unrecognizable from those sweet early years. By the time my son was...
A photo journal prompt waits for you at the end. Our bodies feel and carry what our minds cannot always name. Bessel van der Kolk's research confirms what many midlife women already sense in their own experience (2014). When I found a lost little boy in my alley and...
It was a beautiful Saturday morning, the kind that arrives with clarity in what to do and time to do it. For once, I felt in control of my day and sure of its purpose. Every midlife caregiver knows what came next. And then my phone rang. An emergency at my dad's...
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