Recent Posts
A Love Letter to Love
This Valentine’s Day I’m rolling single having just gone through a breakup a month ago, and readers, it was a doozy. Going through a divorce last year and then putting my heart back out there was a leap of faith, or maybe insane. It started off innocently enough- a rebound to get me through the most destabilizing time in my life- and I ended up falling in love and gaining a best friend.
A New Approach to Winter Blues // Strategies + Products I’m Trying Now
I am a card carrying member of the winter blues club; otherwise known as Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). How’s that for an uplifting opening sentence? After years of battling it, I’ve come up with some strategies that work for me, as well as a new approach to it this year.
Telling my Kids About Divorce + How we Survived the First Year
One year ago today, the day after my daughter’s third birthday, I sat down with my kids and their Dad and told them that we were getting a divorce.
We planned our conversation with them carefully, read as many articles as we could get our hands on and prepared for the most heartbreaking response.
What they actually said wasn’t in any article I read, and I had a hard time wrapping my head around it for a long time. It was a reminder that every single part of a divorce story is unique for everyone who goes through it.