Two people I am close to keep me honest about how hard it can be to change. One is a smart, successful, emotionally accessible man who is overweight; the other is my smart, successful niece who writes poetry and fiction. The man wants to weigh less for health and appearance reasons; my niece wants … [Read more...]

Sometimes it’s nice the way feelings can magnetize the past. Looking out at sun dappled mornings can easily put me right back to when my children were little, playing out in the yard, and for moments I feel like it was yesterday not decades ago. And certain smells, or breezes or sounds easily … [Read more...]

There’s no question that anxiety can feel awful. It can easily make people feel overwhelmed, or like they’re not doing well enough, or like something terrible is going to happen. “I got so scared the other night that my boyfriend was seeing someone else that I called him every two minutes. I had … [Read more...]

For me, creating and launching a web site is like going to a new country without knowing the language or the roads and trying to accomplish something while I am there. I’m not good at languages; am worse at directions, and in any new place, including the internet, I’d rather browse. I came up … [Read more...]