As Mental Health Awareness Month comes to an end, I really needed to remind myself and maybe you too that caring for yourself doesn’t have to look perfect to count. Now I say as someone who really struggles with this idea that for something to count it must be for x amount of time and that progress needs to be visible.

It’s hard to believe that it’s already June. Ten years ago this month, I had just given birth to my second child. My older daughter was four, and I thought—naively—that I had parenting figured out. But when my son was born, while everyone around me celebrated and congratulated me on the birth of another healthy child, I grieved. I grieved the loss of my old self—the parent who could give all of my attention to one child, the person who had already made it through the infant

I am not exactly sure where it came from, but somewhere along the way I learned it’s rude to brag. I learned you should deflect a compliment or make an accomplishment smaller to help others feel comfortable with the success. It was such a contradiction because the expectation was always high performance – but without owning that performance. I’m not proud to say that I have been told more than once and by more than one person that I should pause and celebrate more. It’s embar

The next time you find yourself “spinning” or whatever your version of that is…try picking just one achievable thing to focus on and see if it helps.