What Happens to a Mother's Mind Under Chronic Interruption. There was a stretch of early motherhood when I quietly wondered if I was developing dementia. I didn’t say that out loud. It felt dramatic. Ungrateful. Possibly unhinged. But the thought sat there anyway, heavy and persistent: something is wrong with my brain. I loved my children with a kind of ferocity that rearranged my bones. I showed up. I responded. I held the tiny rhythms of their days with devotion. From the o

A brain-based, mental-health-centered perspective for parents trying to hold the line Let me start here—because this matters: If you are delaying phones or social media for your child, you are not behind the times. You are not naïve. You are not depriving your child of something essential. You are making a developmentally protective decision in a world that increasingly profits from children having access before their brains are ready . And yes—your child may be mad about i

Learn about the science and soul of intuition, momma gut, and the special case of intuition in those with ADHD.

August through December have been… a journey. The kind of journey where you don’t really realize how far you’ve traveled until you finally stop moving long enough to look around and think, “Oh. Wow. That was a lot.” This fall, my husband and I made a decision I never thought I’d make: we pulled our kids out of school and started homeschooling. And no—this wasn’t one of those Pinterest-board, color-coded, “I’ve always dreamed of homeschooling”  situations. Quite the opposite,

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