May 12, 2023 | ADHD, Mental Health, Parenting
Do you lack attention to detail? Or have an inability to focus? What about forgetfulness? These are common symptoms of ADHD. What some of you might not know about me is that I have a child living with ADHD. She’s just finishing eighth grade, and we’ve been on...
Mar 26, 2023 | Anxiety, Depression, Handling Emotions
Lately I’ve been thinking about flakiness. As in, people’s propensity to be flaky. In 2000 I first moved to California from Texas, and one of the cultural nuances I had to get used to was a tendency for people to make plans and then flake out, either notifying...
Mar 6, 2023 | Anxiety, Healing Trauma, Mental Health
Read my new essay in Best Self. Here’s a snippet: At the age of 39, I had a psychotic break. It happened during a time when I was under a significant level of work and relationship-related stress. The tipping point came when I recovered a memory of being...
Feb 9, 2023 | Mental Health, Press News
What happens when you have a psychotic break? For me, it catalyzed my healing journey. Watch this IG Live with my book coach, Kim O’hara:
Nov 13, 2022 | Anxiety, Healing Trauma, Mental Health
In January this year, my English husband got his U.S. citizenship. One of the questions he was asked during the citizenship process was, “How will you contribute to the country?” He’d been thinking about that for some months when the current City Council of our...