Please remember that you change lives every single day. You see things most 'regular people' pretend don't exist. 

I love my family passionately. But I recognize the need to love myself with passion, to dive in and find my way in this new stage of my life.

Rest in the breath and in the love that you can feel even in your darkest moments when you close your eyes, take a deep inhalation, release a slow exhalation, and pause.

While I never worried about having enough love to go around, I was worried about being able to have enough time, energy and patience.

By the next morning I had forgotten there ever was a new sippy cup, and that is how it came to spend a week lying forgotten under the front passenger seat, slowly leaking rotting milk into the carpet.

Instead of focusing on screens, let’s direct our attention to what’s actually on the screens, how they’re being used and how we engage with our kids, online and offline.

My baby will find other ways to observe me in wonderment as a woman who is both her mother, yet someone else completely.

I thought the goodbyes to childhood would choke me and that my grief would steal my joy. Nothing could be further from the truth.

If I’d been at an adult only pool party, with only peers watching, I’d have felt like a dork. But with my daughter’s proud eyes on me, I felt ridiculously brave. 

There are so many more Bennys than Caitlyns. There are so many who live their lives in secret and shame when they deserve to feel love and acceptance.