letting go

What motherhood taught me about letting go in the new year

A mom reflects on the rituals, tiny hellos in the new year, and gentle resets that help her enter the year with more ease, less control, and a lot more compassion

Motherhood is holding on, and then one day letting go

It’s holding on. To firsts and lasts, to moments of magic in the mundane, and to an ache of loving so deeply.

My daughters are no longer babies but I can’t let go of *all* of their baby stuff

How could a mother part with the hospital newborn cap—the one that, if you squeeze your eyes shut and sniff really deeply, still smells a little like fresh baby?

True life: My home used to be overrun with toys

Here's what I learned (and now do) to keep us from getting back to that place of too many toys.

Going back to work from maternity leave was so hard, I put it off

I was pretty sure my son would be okay, but I was a whole lot less sure that I would.

We’re all good parents

Even if our mom guilt tells us otherwise.

I finally learned to let go of my mom guilt once my second child came along

I’m learning and growing just as much as my kids are. 

Letting go of high expectations helped me become a happier mama

Despite what I have gained as a mother, what I let go of in my journey into motherhood is what’s most important.

2018 is my year to peaceful parenting: Why I’m leaving anger + guilt in 2017

Things that don’t fit ? 

Your independent child is evidence of a healthy parental attachment 

When children can take us for granted, they can leap into new surroundings of their own making.

I’m the world’s okay-est mom

Because perfect parents don’t exist. 

To the mom having an off day—there’s no such thing as perfect

Here's how to "let yourself be" without feeling like a failure.