In Junior High, I was approached by my favorite teacher, Mrs. Drake. She wanted to know if I was okay. I had changed, she said. She was worried that something might be troubling me. I was tired, I told her,...
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Your worth is not measured by percentiles or averages or milestones reached.⠀ Your worth is not measured by the number of hours your baby sleeps.⠀ Your worth is not measured by your (un)willingness to...
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Guest post by Zelma Broadfoot As a social worker and a mother, I’ve experienced mental health issues both personally and professionally. It has touched my life, gently from time to time, and then knocked me...
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A few days before her 61st birthday, writer Anne Lamott wrote down everything she knew for sure. She delivered her life-affirming wisdom at a must-watch TED talk. This was #2: Almost everything will work again...
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“I’m not giving up mum!” said my four-year-old son as the world’s tiniest claw popped off his new Lego dinosaur creation time and again. This phrase is becoming a common feature of our days. Each time...
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He was nowhere to be found. I’d only been inside for a minute. In the few panic stricken seconds it took me to find him, I had wild visions of a cougar having leaped over the fence and snatching my...
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