Let’s all take a reminder for today (adults/parents and teens/kids alike): We’re not responsible for the feelings, happiness, or emotional well being of any other person — only ourselves. Say it with me if you need to. We’re not responsible…
Do You Need to Simp?
Today I learned a new concept: “simping” (verb: to simp). This was not one I learned in college, though I now have, thanks to my college kid. Check out her take on getting through struggles and how simping can be…
Teen Speak: On Pain and Funks
Curious about a teen’s perspective on pain, funks, and dealing? Below is a “Teen Speak” version of On Our Pain. ON PAIN AND FUNKS By Lexie We all get into funks sometimes, heck! I’m sitting in the doorway of one right…
Getting Through The Struggles
Struggles, challenges, wells of pain, and really, really messy times happen — for all of us. One of the things I’ve found helpful in climbing out of worry, stress, overwhelm, and depression: ditching the fight and reminding myself life is…
Make Me Happy: On Happiness and Other People
Check out a teen’s perspective on happiness, ourselves, and other people. A tough (though useful) life lesson I’m starting to get (after years of trying to please every coach, teacher, boss, and other “authority figure,” even into adulthood, and seeing…
Like I’d Thought — And Nothing Like I’d Thought
What if life is contradictions and beauty and pain? Pain is information. You can run from it if you choose. It’s okay. Eventually — the way through is through. It’s to take one step after another. It’s to show up.…
Empty and Numbing
There aren’t enough medications to take, nice dinners and vacations to go on, glasses of wine or coffee to drink, or new shoes to wear that will make us feel better in the long run, if we’re feeling empty underneath.…
Falling in Sicily
A story for today’s food for thought. Recently an old gymnastics memory came to mind, probably because I’d found a reference to this specific meet when I was looking through a photo album the previous week. I was around 15…
Pain, Forever, Seasons, Bonehead Mistakes
Considerations for a hard day, when life feels painful for you and/or your teen: Pain. It’s hard to witness, to feel, to experience. Pain is real. Real in its suckiness and messiness, tiredness, depression, and despairing. Real in the physical…
What If…
Today’s food for thought is a selection of recent ponderings: -Danielle LaPorte’s Truthbomb: “So much is a cry for love.” -Jill Bolte Taylor’s TED talk: My stroke of insight -What if: What if so much IS a cry for love?…