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[This is Part 1 of a 5-part Healthy, Happy Family Series on adding easy, delicious, probiotic, homemade ferments to our daily food rhythms.] I struggled for years to figure out how to get [...]

Don’t let the Inner-Critic stop you from creating and enjoying your life, your life’s work, your art. As humans we are always creating. As parents, you have created a human being and [...]

I value and have witnessed the potency of Hand in Hand Parenting tools — Staylistening, Playlistening, Special Time and Listening Partnership. I practice these myself and share these with [...]

[This post is the third in a 5-part series about Connected Communication, as taught in 4 Steps to Connection, the upcoming 6 Week Nonviolent Communication (NVC) Series for Relationships and [...]

In Part 1, I talked how there is an absence of rituals for loss and then told my story of miscarriage. (Includes links for stories and support.) In Part 2, I talk about a normal process of grief, [...]

WARNING: If you are pregnant or sensitive to loss, know that this is a detailed story of my experience of miscarriage. I was pregnant when I wrote this, but this is my story. It may or may not be [...]

[This post is the second in a 5-part series about Connected Communication, as taught in 4 Steps to Connection, the upcoming 6 Week Nonviolent Communication (NVC) Series for Relationships and [...]

[This post is the first in a 5 part series about Connected Communication, as taught in 4 Steps to Connection, the upcoming 6 Week Nonviolent Communication (NVC) Series for Relationships and [...]

When I was a new mother, there were definitely times that I felt like a failure. I thought I was making a million mistakes. Especially when I was in the swamp of postpartum depression/anxiety, I [...]

When you become a mother… People look at you–your pregnant belly or arms full with child–and say, “Isn’t it amazing?! Aren’t you overflowing with joy and happiness?!?” Then when [...]