What If True Intimacy Has Nothing to Do With Perfection?
The Urban Mom For a long time, I believed intimacy meant only skin on skin, burning gazes, an…
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Once 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…
Read morePrayer to my God
Creator,You, who wove me in secret,with flesh and bone, longing, light and mystery,touch with light…
Read moreUnconditional Love or Emotional Training?
“Only women, children and dogs are loved unconditionally. A man is only loved under the…
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