From the category archives:

Motherhood

What to expect when you’re NOT expecting

May 15, 2011

The part of my practice devoted to working with women who are having a hard time conceiving has been growing quickly. I love these women. LOVE. A lot of  new readers have found their way to this blog from some of the fertility-related events I’ve been speaking at.  So  I wanted to re-post parts of [...]

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Is my husband actually happy as a stay-at-home dad? The difference between a happy life and an interesting life.

March 12, 2011

You’ve probably read that my husband stays home with our kid. I’m amazed that this works as well as it does.  We both had a lot of concerns going into it. I worried that having him always home, making so many of the parenting and household decisions I usually made would end in me criticizing [...]

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Can We Really Have It All? Maybe. Here’s How.

January 3, 2011

As little girls, we’re told we Can-Have-It-All. Martha Beck says: We can have it all…except sleep. Courtney Martin says: They tell us we can do anything, but what we hear is that we must do everything. So, can we have it all? I’m exploring this in my own life. The Problem Here’s my current, typical [...]

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Projection. And Parenting.

September 27, 2010

Projection is fascinating, isn’t it? When I looked up the definition of projection I saw a lot of stuff related to television screens. So I’ll clarify—as if it’s necessary in this blog—that I mean psychological projection. You know, where you attribute your feelings or thoughts to someone else. You assume they think and feel the [...]

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Why I Told the Truth

July 13, 2010

I experienced something really, really cool this weekend. How to release the pressure and watch your painful story disintegrate before your eyes. The way you “release the pressure” is to Tell the Truth. It was Saturday, my family and I had just returned home from a typical afternoon: took baby to one of the Chicago [...]

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Mantras and affirmations and cake, oh my!

July 11, 2010

When I gave birth to my daughter, I was all hippie-ish about it. Because I knew that my body would function perfectly the less I interfered, I wanted a natural, intervention-free experience. One of the books I read during my pregnancy was Ina May’s Spiritual Midwifery. It’s full of stories of women who lived on [...]

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Self-Love: To my Daughter

June 4, 2010

I asked my husband the other day what he thinks is most important for our daughter to learn. If he could have her learn just one life lesson, what would it be?  He said to be kind to others. That sounds nice and I get where he’s coming from. But as someone who coaches women [...]

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