Mental Health

I’m due for a cry. As a kid, I was a bit of a crybaby. I was always sensitive and anything from a skinned knee, to a bad grade, to seeing someone else suffering could set me off. In...

  Literally, no one I know in the year 2021 needs to spend more time with their kids. After making weekend plans with my partner I received some very passive-aggressive comments from someone I considered a good friend; a lot of...

Hey Mama, if you're here reading this now, it probably means that your little one has recently found their groove. Congrats! That groove is everything.  Maybe they are just starting to roll over or perhaps beginning to crawl (or doing...

Disclosure :: This post is written by Dr. Jeremy Knott and sponsored by Our Lady of Lourdes. Seasonal Affective Disorder impacts 15 percent of Americans. Here are some tips to help you break the cycle and feel more like...

In general, the holidays are a difficult time for those who are grieving. Infertility is a different type of grief, because you're grieving for something you've never had. It is a constant loop of grief every month. During Christmas,...

The year 2020 has been hard; like unprecedentedly hard. Despite an impressive communal effort to constantly seek the bright side, this dumpster fire of a year has definitely had more valleys than peaks. If you're like me, you might periodically...

September is Suicide Awareness month. Unfortunately this is a subject I have dealt with this on more than one occasion. Losing someone is never easy. Losing someone who takes their own life can be even harder. I have dealt with...

As we watched the weather channel, running on an endless loop in our living room, I could see my husband getting more and more tense. We were waiting for the storm, and we were in for a long night....

For whoever needs to hear this, WAKE UP! Wherever you are in life, be present. Be intentional. Be authentic and truthful. Just BE you. Freshly plowed soil. That's where I am at this point in my life. Like the soil...

“When people tell you who they are,” Maya Angelou famously advised, “believe them.”  You are the steward of your own integrity, and the assumptions made by those that misunderstand who you are and what you stand for, reveal a great...