The Ketchup Lesson: Offering Without the Need for Validation
The Urban Mom I spent hours in the kitchen, trying to impress my guests.I made a Thai dish…
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Healing the Fear of Being Seen
For some time now I’ve been practicing Gabor Maté’s method of working with people, Compassionate…
Read moreWhat If True Intimacy Has Nothing to Do With Perfection?
For a long time, I believed intimacy meant only skin on skin, burning gazes, an…
Read moreOnce upon a time…
There once was a little girl born between silences and screams.One was her mother’s, who…
Read moreWhere Healing Begins: A Game of Dinosaurs and Bunnies
I am a mother. A kindergarten teacher. A woman learning to come back home to…
Read moreThe Fear You Can’t See: How My Son Taught Me the Courage of Saying No
— Mom, what’s your biggest fear?My ten-year-old son’s voice cut through the quiet air of…
Read more“My Gate Broke”: On Boundaries, Exhaustion, and the Right to Protect Ourselves
“My gate broke…” I heard a dear woman say yesterday, with a shy sadness in…
Read moreHappy Wife, Happy Life – the Price of a Quiet Woman
I’ve heard this expression more and more lately, sometimes as a joke, sometimes whispered seriously:…
Read moreResurrection (When I Opened My Eyes and Screamed While Alive)
in the heart of the blackest nightwhen the tombstone seemed finaland the blood had cooled…
Read moreDeath (When I Closed My Eyes and Went Silent While Alive)
I died on an ordinary dayI died slowly, in a clean room,with white lace curtains…
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