How to Regulate Your Nervous System as a Mom (When You Can’t Get Five Minutes Alone)
Learn how to regulate your nervous system as a mom: spot your early signs, reset in under a minute, and build real capacity over time.
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Why Harmony Needs Boundaries
Part three of this series: what keeps harmony from becoming its own kind of overwhelm. Harmony without boundaries just becomes a new version of overload — saying yes to everything because, technically, it could all overlap. Boundaries are what keep…
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A Slow December: How an Unexpected Motel Stay Reminded Me to Breathe
To slow down December with kids, start small: schedule downtime, skip the events that don’t feel right, notice when your kids need rest more than another outing, and let imperfect be enough. A slow December is a handful of small…
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Breathwork for Anxiety: When Meditation and Therapy Weren’t Enough
Breathwork for anxiety works for me where meditation and therapy fall short, because it lets me move stress through and out of my body instead of only getting comfortable with it and letting it pass. Right around story time, my…
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Mindful Parenting and Phone Use: What I Learned From Losing My Phone for a Weekend
How an accidental phone-free weekend taught me about presence, mindful parenting, and creating calm in our overly connected world. Two weeks ago, I accidentally left my phone in my friend’s car just as she was heading out of town for…
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Another Trip Around the Sun: Birthday Reflections
This week, I celebrated another trip around the sun. And like most birthdays in this season of life, it arrived with very little fanfare (I completely forgot about it until two days before). The day itself was simple. I celebrated…
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Mindful Motherhood: A Key to Peaceful Parenting
Motherhood is overwhelming. We all know it. Yes, of course, there are those moments when we catch our little ones giggling over a secret together or when they read to us for the first time. Those incredible moments that make…
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Learning to Fall: What Skateboarding is Teaching Us
I started skateboarding recently. In my 40s. I mean, I fooled around with a board in my teens and twenties, in someone’s cul-de-sac or cruising up and down the Mission Beach boardwalk. There were also the skateboard-keg shuttles in college…
