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“Beings are self-correcting,” my Internal Family Systems therapist said. Another’s presence is all that’s needed for this self-correction to happen. The day I smelt rubber burning in my home and frantically ran to the pot where my 3.5 year old twins’ last remaining pacifiers had melted into gooey lumps, her words were my refrain. Last week, I’d made a big to-do about driving them 30 minutes to Build-a-Bear, where we spent $200 (obviously Big Sis had to get a doll too) dramati

I found this post automatically generated when I went to write my first blog entry; oh, the wonders of AI. I would have deleted it except I found the information in it to be relevant & possibly helpful. Motherhood is often romanticized in popular culture, but the reality is a complex and transformative experience known as matrescence. This term, coined by anthropologist Dana Raphael in the 1970s, describes the profound physical, emotional, and psychological changes that wome