Gracefully Evolving
Sharing the bumpy road of evolving towards my most authentic self.
I had a mini epiphany last night; something I wish we all had the time and mercy to experience more often. What was my epiphany, you ask? In a nutshell, it was that we are far too hard on ourselves as parents and/or educators. Duh, right?! Well let me give you the scenario and it …
Write, write, write. Your body, your soul wants to write. To let it out. To feel better. But your brain sets up a road block. I don’t know what to write. Where should I start? I don’t have the quote/book/resources/pictures I want to write that. With each ‘but’ my brain gets cloudier and cloudier and …
Below is something I wrote a little over three years ago, as a first-time mom to a three-year-old little girl and someone who had just come out of Severe Postpartum Anxiety and Depression. I was a few months into intense therapy for what I had just been told was an emotionally abusive childhood – which …
In a previous post I described the difference between Sensory Processing Disorder and Sensory Processing Sensitivity (otherwise known as being a Highly Sensitive Person). I am the latter – a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP). And dang, do I wish I had known that growing up. What I could, I just blamed on maternal genetics (sorry …
Wow, this is a topic that has made a HUGE impact in my life, but I’ve only known about for a few years. I have actually been unwittingly living with one of these my entire life…but my 6-year-old daughter actually lives with both. I have Sensory Processing Sensitivity. This is also known as being a …
Let me first burst any expectations here with the fact that no day looks the same in our learning adventure. Ever. You see, my husband and I have chosen to unschool our daughter, at least for now. Well, okay, I decided I wanted to unschool, explained what that basically meant to my husband, and he …
