Tag: family
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Social Distancing Week 37…Nothing and Everything
Friday, November 27, 2020…7:44pm The end of week 37. . We’re coming off a week spent at a desert vacation rental with my family. One day back in the summer, I suggested we make a plan to spend Thanksgiving week away together. Somehow even way back in July I had a feeling we would still…
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Social Distancing Week 34…Stuck In The Middle
Friday, November 6. 2020…10:07am The end of week 34. All week I’ve had snippets of the song “Stuck In The Middle With You” by Stealers Wheel running through my head. Clowns to the left of me – this entire debacle that is the 2020 presidential election, teenagers who clearly need some space from each other,…
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Birthday Eves and World Mental Health Day
On this day 15 years ago there was so much I did not know. I certainly didn’t imagine that our every day would include my child living (thriving) with mental illness. And that means that somewhere out there this evening are other mothers, in other hospitals, waiting for their own baby to join the world…
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Social Distancing Week 22…Off The Grid
It was definitely not the most relaxing camping trip of our lives. But we were away from the place where we’d all spent most of our time for the previous 21 weeks, with great friends and in fresh air. The days weren’t easy, but there was so much laughter. We didn’t completely escape being around…
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Social Distancing Week 21…Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction
Literally no other family in the history of civilization has lived through exactly what our family is living through right now. I know that tends toward hyperbole, but it’s actually an absolute truth. A truth that is somehow stranger than fiction.
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Our Invisible and Unwelcome Family Member
My son is living with anxiety and depression, but the entire family lives with the fallout caused by his anxiety and depression.
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New Decade Non-Resolutions
As we count down the hours to a new decade, it seems to me that more than new year resolutions, we could all benefit from some thoughtful life choices that hold both community and personal well being side by side. Don’t make resolutions. Make conscious decisions to live and love one moment at a time…
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Imperfect Christmas Wishes
My wish for you this holiday is to let go. Let go and find the space to rest, to love your people fully, and to find your own peace, joy, laughter and togetherness among the imperfection.
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How Much Can You Handle?
Sometimes there can be an odd sort of symmetry to life. Something happens in one part of life and then is unexpectedly mirrored back to you in a different part of life. We’ve experienced this recently with the exact words, “How much can you handle?” coming first from the man-child’s psychiatrist and then from my husband’s…
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Holding Space in a Season of Holy Saturdays
Holy Saturday 2019 In the Christian tradition, Holy Saturday is the space between the pain of Jesus being nailed to the cross and the joy that will come with resurrection on Easter. On Holy Saturday we acknowledge that we don’t always know what hope will look like tomorrow. We hold space and we wait. In…
We're All A Little Broken 