September is Perimenopause Awareness Month, which makes it a good time to talk about something that often gets left out of the conversation: perimenopause and mental health. We hear a lot about menopause’s hot flashes, night sweats, irregular periods, and trouble...
Politics can feel impossible to escape right now. Headlines on television, political conversations around the dinner table, notifications arriving on our phones, and videos appearing in our children’s social media feeds: even if parents try to shield their...
Have you ever noticed that even in those moments when life finally slows down, your body doesn’t? You finish the work project, your children are asleep, the house is quiet, and yet your shoulders remain tense. Your mind keeps racing. Sleep doesn’t come...
Summertime means less covering up, swimsuits, beach time…and for a lot of folks, this is hard. Because I’m guessing no one needs to tell you that our culture is obsessed with health, wellness, and fitness. “Fit” is often code for thin or skinny. Body size has been an...
Belonging, connecting, and interacting are intrinsic to humans. We find not only meaning, but survival in our ability to connect. We belong to families, both chosen and inherited, in our friend groups, through our workplaces, in clubs, civic organizations, sports...