Instead of focusing on the most recent rejection by my mother, I will take one small action to creatively claim my living space. This image appeared…
How my day began: S2 enters my room to ask me if I am awake. Me: Good morning baby. Did your brother wake you up?…
I simply cannot find the words to describe all the ways in which Jiu Jitsu meets our family’s needs at sensory, spiritual, and social levels.…
For the first time in almost 2 years, I am able to mentally settle down enough to look through and work in my altered books. My…
Observing my family of origin from an emotionally safe distance allows me to see the extreme and intense ways of their day-to-day functioning. Frequent and casual but righteous use…
Money Is not my problem or my solution. Though it is nice when it is not a constant concern!! When my boys were tiny and chronically ill…
The language of this article feels so intense and psychotic, because this is intense and psychotic…and it is 100% my experience with my sister. There is no…
First off, I will say that yelling and saying FUCK is neither wholesome nor badass. This is a point of departure for me, not my final…
My sister hosted my ex husband and our sweet boys yesterday for lunch with my mother. My younger son, so sensitive and aware, said to me; “Mom, it is just…
RE: Greg’s kindness: S2 asked “Is he that way because his parents are like that?”. My response segued nicely into expansion of my own “family” experience. Any excuse at all will do! Feigning diplomacy,…