Handling The Hard Stuff

Tag: Mental Health

  • Accepting Help is Hard

    I am proud. Overly so a lot of the time. I firmly believe it’s because I’m the youngest in my family and felt like I always had something to prove. And I am beyond stubborn. So actually admitting I can’t do something – or everything – and need help is one of the most difficult…

  • Where do you Shine?

    Sometimes finding your sparkle is hard. But we can do hard things.

  • Good Habits

    We have the best intentions. And then life gets in the way. It’s so easy to fall back into our bad habits and give up on our goals when things get challenging or our plate gets too full. But it may be easier if we hack the habit-forming system. Tips to build the habits you…

  • Relationships Aren’t about Power and Control

    Trigger Warning: This post is about relationships and abuse and if you are particularly sensitive to those conversations this may not be for you right now. There are lots of different ways to talk about toxic relationships. That’s a large spectrum on which we see relationships with workload imbalances and relationships with physical beatings. Every…

  • Failing is learning

    As kids we try and fail at literally everything. It’s how we learn to walk and grab things and feed ourselves. Kids try everything. But somewhere along the line we lose that. As adults we have this idea that we’re supposed to know how to do everything without ever having attempted it. We watch a…

  • Being the Villain

    Being the bad guy is hard for a lot of us. Strong boundaries and being “mean mommy” goes against the nature of a lot of people for a lot of reasons. For children of trauma, reducing conflict is a gut instinct. For people accustomed to excess, strict rules and processes may not come naturally. Those…

  • Pride

    Do you remember the last time you actually stopped and were proud of yourself? I am terrible at this. I don’t know if this is a me thing or a woman thing or a family thing or just society in general, but I’m terrible at giving myself accolades. This is especially ridiculous for me because…

  • Adulting 101

    It’s that time of year when we all decide this is gonna be the year we get our s$#@ together. Good for you. Good for us. But holy crap is it overwhelming! Where to begin?? I don’t know that I could keep any of this stuff up on a daily basis for an extended period…