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School Year 2021-2022? My Emotions Are Mixed
Paperwork has been submitted for my son to start preschool next year and my daughter’s spot in kindergarten is confirmed. It should be a time of celebrating milestones. Instead I’m filled with a mix of exhaustion, anticipation and dread about the upcoming school year. We all have high hopes for next school year to get back to “normal” but at this point, I have my doubts. Will things ever be “normal” again or will we push forward with all the continued uncertainty and moving pieces that we now call “normal”? Because, frankly, all this uncertainty and moving pieces has left me a little traumatized, a lot overwhelmed and so, so…
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Children’s Mental Health Matters
Not quite three years ago I traded my role with the community mental health center for freelance work that would allow me to stay home and manage my family. This flexibility has been a blessing while navigating family affairs ESPECIALLY in the midst of pandemic. Even so, mental health has remained top of mind for me especially where our children’s mental health is concerned. The mental and emotional well-being of children has always been close to my heart, particularly as the rates of youth suicide (both attempted and completed) have risen. So many stressors and triggers were already present. Now we’ve piled on stressors we never could have imagined in…
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Hearing From God While Grieving
Saturated with grief, resources drained from a week long battle with a cold, I awoke to face the miserable day. The day that would have been the due date of my third lost pregnancy. Everything I needed this day hinged upon hearing from God while grieving. After peeling myself out of bed I switched on auto pilot. Time marches on, regardless of the grief pressing down. I had to march forward as well. In whatever way I could muster. I started the coffee and opened my Bible but I was unable to absorb anything more than black typed words on white page. I needed to hear from God; to know…
