Smash It ‘Til You Break
May 17th, 2022 | by Naomi Racz
Content note: depression, suicide, pregnancy loss Smashing It Smashing it meant starting a career transition in the midst of first
Browsing the "Mind" Category
Sing A Song (Or: The Dolphins Who Hung with Me When My Son Was Breaking Down)
February 24th, 2022 | by Coley Gallagher
Icy water shocked my bare feet each time the tide slid in. I trudged on, iPhone stuck in my back
I Worry About My Young Son’s Memories: What is growing up in Covid times doing to our kids’ development?
February 16th, 2022 | by Rebecca Rolland
As a speech pathologist, I know how important these years are in forming an understanding of what the world is, and how it works
Only One Can Cry: Adam Toledo, Subjectivity, and Riding Shotgun
April 23rd, 2021 | by Cheryl Klein
From the back seat, my son's toothbrush blinked in red staccato to let him know how long to brush, and I thought of police cars.
The Hardest Part About Raising My Kids Was Raising Myself
April 19th, 2021 | by Mary Welch
There’s a drawer in the kitchen I call the Everything Drawer. It contains all the perpetual mess and possibility and
That Is Who You Are
July 24th, 2020 | by Meg Thompson
“Who knows what’s good or bad?” —-Taoist Parable On any given day, I vacillate between wanting to be a tenure
In so many blinks of an eye
March 9th, 2020 | by Zhenya Bourova
It is 8.46am when I see you for the first time, impossibly small and slick with blood as they hand you to me in the operating theatre.
This Will Make You Uncomfortable
January 31st, 2020 | by Sacha Mardou
How do we teach setting boundaries in a society that always wants girls to play "nice?" Comics by Sacha Mardou from her therapy comics series.
Losing One
January 8th, 2020 | by Anne Bruder
Only as I searched fruitlessly for archival news stories of the accident or narrated every detail, did I begin to think a bit less obsessively of my son’s death
When Grief Won’t Fit
December 11th, 2019 | by Elizabeth Muller
From the time of her diagnosis, my daughter had been discussed in a language used for illness. But none of the words fit the way I felt
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