When you walk into therapy on a MONDAY night, and exclaim that it’s been a looooong week…you just know it’s gonna be a night. And it sure was. I swear, sometimes just Saturday, Sunday and Monday feels like an entire week all in itself. Therapy went well, and we talked about a lot. But I …
These moments carry so much weight. Can I talk about it anyway? Read More »
Just like that, we’re back to our regularly scheduled programming. It doesn’t take long to get right back into the swing of things back at home, does it? Yesterday was my first full day back at home in 2 weeks. It was a typical Monday. Wake up. Take the 6 year old to school. Come …
Tonight, we will make the 2 hour drive to my hotel room before my 6am flight tomorrow morning. It’s officially day 1 of my trip, and I sure do have a lot of feelings about it all. But first, therapy. Last night went about exactly how I needed it too. I knew my husband needed …
The thing about trauma is that there’s always going to be certain triggers associated with it. Some will be obvious, like…fireworks are a certain kind of loud, and that might be triggering. Being alone in a room with a person you don’t know might be triggering. Being in a room with someone you do know …
Sometimes, the best way to start a post, or writing in general, is simply by starting. I’ve thought about different ways to start writing today, and all that’s done is make me not want to write. So, here I am. Starting. Therapy last night went well. It felt productive and helpful and like we covered …
Something absolutely crazy happened last night…. IT RAINED. It literally has not rained here in…months. So it was an extremely welcomed change. Especially because it brought with it about 10°f cool weather, so we’ll finally be out of the 100s (for a few days anyway). It was not a bad ending to an already long …
The calm before the storm? And starting the week off right. Read More »
I work very hard, sometimes I wonder if it’s too hard, at respecting other peoples boundaries in my relationships with them. This is especially true in high stakes relationships, like with my birth sons parents…but is also true to my other relationships. My marriage, my friendships, in therapy…all of them. I am really good at …
Maintaining and respecting boundaries within relationships Read More »
I had therapy last night, despite the odds of school starting and everyone starting to get sick again. Miraculously, my son hasn’t brought anything home yet. Which is actually shocking. It went well and it felt positive and productive, which is something that I desperately needed. Despite my life being…my life, and just genuinely hard …
When the very first thing out of your mouth as soon as your eyes pop open at 6am is “what’s that smell”…you just know that you’re about to have a bad day. A very bad day. Turns out, “that smell” was nail polish. A lot of it. My 2 older kids, who very unfortunately share …
“Have kids”, they said. And a very Monday kind of Monday Read More »
Ah, life. It just keeps on going, doesn’t it? Yesterday was as Monday as it gets, in a not so Monday way. I took my son to his therapy appointment (the counseling kind), and right at the end, my husband calls to tell me that his car is officially dead. And I have to go …