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As a full-time clinician and mother to 3 young children, the term “self-care” always sent me a strong message that I was too self-indulgent when I should be solely focused on the needs of my children and my clients.  So I stopped listening to advice on this subject and I stopped trying. Each time I set a goal in this ...

According to the Department of Labor, 61.1% of married-couple families in 2016 had both parents working. In my counseling work, and in my role as husband to a working wife, I bear witness daily to the power spouses have to support or undermine their partners. As I enter my 50th year of marriage, still working and still married to a ...

When I was a teenager I loved talking on the phone. Who didn’t? I remember sitting with the corded phone to my ear, watching my favorite soap opera, and talking with my best friend next door who was sitting with her corded phone, watching the same soap opera. I would spend hours in the evening talking with my friends, tying ...

As a working mother with 4 children, there are many things that I find challenging. How do I get everyone where they need to be after school? How do I get that extra hour of work time in when I have a big project due?  When do I get my haircut? How can I make everyone happy at the dinner ...

Maybe you have had the thought, especially in this final phase of cabin fever season: “I am losing it. The parent I want to be is leaving the building and a lunatic is poised to take his place.” This is a true story that took place on a Tuesday night many winters ago. I know it was a Tuesday because ...