The purpose of parenting isn’t to prevent our children from ever feeling discomfort, failure, or struggle.

I had a friend tell me something last week that stopped me in my tracks. She said, “I feel like I’m drowning in other people’s thoughts.” She’s 67, retired from teaching, and spends hours each day scrolling through news apps, checking Facebook, watching YouTube videos about gardening (her passion), and texting with her grandchildren. All […]

Every stumble, every triumph, every rainy morning you allowed yourself to rest—brought you here.

A Reflection on Enough There’s a line in an old Cat Stevens song that’s been following me lately, the way certain truths do when we’re finally ready to hear them: “I know we’ve come a long way, we’re changing day to day… but tell me, where do the children play?” I’ve been thinking about that […]

This week, we got the news that no business owner wants to hear: our building had been sold, and we were being asked to leave. No warning, no transition period — just pack up and go. My first reaction? Honestly, it wasn’t peaceful. It was the kind of sudden, jarring disruption that puts your nervous […]

The truth is, summer heat has a real and documented effect on our mood, our sleep, our nervous system, and our mental wellbeing—especially for those of us over 60, whose bodies are more sensitive to temperature regulation than we often realize. What we feel isn’t weakness. It’s physiology.

You don’t have to have a turning point story. You don’t have to be able to measure your progress or explain it to anyone. You’re allowed to be somewhere in the middle — uncertain and tired and still putting one foot in front of the other — and that’s enough.

In almost every session there comes a point when the air shifts. The room settles. A patient is talking about their mother, or their father, and you can almost touch the old injury, close to the skin, tender, asking, without saying so, for some kind of easing. You’re across from them, with your training, your […]

There is a particular kind of exhaustion that doesn’t come from working too hard or sleeping too little. It comes from the quiet, relentless project of improving yourself — the sense that who you are right now is always just a little short of who you should be. If you’ve spent any real time in […]

You know that moment when your body whispers, “Stay here. Rest. Let the world spin without you for just a little while”? And then, almost immediately, that other voice chimes in—the one that sounds like duty, productivity, all those years of being needed. Just get up. You’re wasting time. There’s so much to do. We’ve […]