Jun 6, 2019 | Parenting |
As this was my first year as an empty nester, I had plenty of time to look back and analyze my parenting experience. I’ve met many people who have regrets about how they parented. I’m not big on regrets since they change absolutely nothing about the past. I do,...
May 30, 2019 | Parenting |
My husband and I just finished our first school year of having an empty nest. I had mixed feelings about being an empty nester, vacillating between absolute dread and counting the minutes until our baby left for college. This seems like the perfect time to evaluate...
May 9, 2019 | Happiness Fulfillment & Self Esteem, Parenting
I vividly remember my first Mother’s Day. I had a colicky three-month-old who we dressed up for a fancy dinner with family. I managed to shower and get dressed that day, but I was exhausted and stressed from a total lack of sleep and the demands of a newborn. We got...
May 2, 2019 | Leadership & Career Development, Relationships |
My clients often tell me about people in their lives who are challenging and thus cause them to walk on eggshells. My question to my clients is always, “Whose eggshells are they?” I’m not being facetious when I say that. (Okay, maybe a little bit.) But what I’m really...
Apr 25, 2019 | Relationships |
A few years ago, I met a wonderful, engaging woman who was part of a business entrepreneurs’ group that I was in. We made an instant connection. Although she lived in New York, we maintained an online and over the phone friendship while only seeing each other a couple...
Apr 11, 2019 | Relationships
A friend of mine, who is relatively new to the dating scene, told me about a date she recently had. She said her date was very interesting and intelligent, but did not ask her one question about herself. Not one. Needless to say, my friend didn’t go on a second date...