Hiking with Soliz: Spring Equinox
Lately I’ve been trying to hike at least once a week while my kids are at school. It’s apart of the self-care I have realized I need in order to thrive in my life, as opposed to just surviving as I...
View ArticleMeditation in the desert: 2.17.17
my body calm, one with the Earth her solid rock covering me, comforting me drinking in the smells/listening to the sound of the wind in the dwarf Palo Verde tree next to me. I am struck by her...
View Articlethe Unexpected
I didn’t expect marriage to look like this. Maybe I was imagining what some of us might imagine before getting married and having children: going on trips together, creating a home together, him...
View ArticleSibling Love
From the time she was growing in my womb (and perhaps before), these two have been connected. I knew then they needed to be here, now, together. There have been moments that I didn’t know that I...
View ArticleMy Radical Decision to End Feeding Therapy
After almost 10 years of trying to get my kids to eat, I decided to pull them out of feeding therapy. We have been going to weekly feeding therapy off and on since my son was 5 months old. We have...
View ArticleCrossing over Thresholds
The unknown is what really scares us. We want to know what’s ahead, that our children will talk and walk and eat and dress themselves and be cared for. One day they will tell us they love us. One day...
View ArticleReawakening to Joy
One morning, several months ago, I looked out my front door and made the profound realization that I am doing something most people are terrified of: I am the parent of TWO children with multiple...
View ArticleGrieving Chronicles: part 1
The grieving, it comes and goes. When it arrives it is difficult to detect. Extremely uncomfortable, I want to push it away. I want it to just go away, “leave me alone.” The grieving, it lurks in the...
View ArticleFinding the Finish Line
I stand on this ledge again, looking out. I see myself. This time I am sitting on a couch. I can see the back of my head, the silhouette of my body through the living room window. I am completely...
View ArticleGrieving Chronicles Part 2: Learning to Ride the Wave
I had just told my sister last week: “I feel better than I ever have as a Mother!”: full of acceptance, riding this wave of calm (and orderliness); I felt good. I have worked so consciously and...
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On Being a Family
I lay in bed listening to the sound of rain outside our bedroom window, my husband is lying next to me. We begin to hear the sounds of our children stirring in the room next to ours, their happy sounds...
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