One of the frequent requests I get from clients is for help reducing phone and social media usage for themselves or for their children. It's always a hard one because smartphones have changed our lives in a lot of great ways. But they also cause us all sorts of problems. Increased phone use might [...]
Car rides with me and my husband always start off the same way, "What do you want to listen to?" This is never easy for us. We are both obsessed with music, just not the same music. He did not grow up with my alternative and indie rock or emo music. Death Cab for [...]
For months, I had been telling my husband we needed to get rid of our second car. We don't need two cars. He uses MARTA and I can walk to work if I need to. It was also getting to be too expensive to fix and had really been costing more than it was [...]
Having a teenager is hard. Having a teenager who is struggling with anxiety can feel impossible. Irritability, mood swings, and skipping school can all be normal teen behaviors. But they can also be signs that something more serious is going on. The New York Times Magazine recently published an article on the apparent increase in [...]
Today, I tried to buy a wreath with some fall leaves for my door but I was too late. All of the stores were already packed with Christmas and Hanukkah decorations; snowflakes and tinsel. I'm never quite ready for the post Halloween shift into the winter holidays and the 80 degree Atlanta weather made [...]
One Spring, when I was still in college, I was flying back home into the Atlanta airport to visit with my family. I hate flying. I hate feeling out of control. I hate turbulence. I hate when I'm not next to the window because I can't see what's going on. It's miserable for me. [...]
Last winter I couldn't move my neck. My muscles just didn't want to work. It started out slowly where I would wake up with shoulder pain or my neck was a little stiff. I tried to do yoga and take hot showers to relax my muscles but nothing seemed to work. It got so [...]
Practicing self-care sounds like it should be fun and easy, yet we consistently find ourselves overworked and feeling like we have no time. A young woman who died in 2013 from "overwork" has been in the news recently after one of Japan's broadcasting companies, NHK, reported it. This woman, Miwa Sado, reportedly worked 159 hours [...]
As I'm writing this, my 18 year old blind, deaf, poodle that has been my best friend for the past 16 years is snoring loudly next to me. She and I have been through everything together: first boyfriends, first breakups, first apartments, new cities, and that one time we went rafting down the Chattahoochee [...]
