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How to give your kids the gift of mindfulness

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The essence of mindfulness is learning to be where we actually are. By Beverly Conyers

November 16, 2022 Family

Motherwell talks to best-selling author Christie Tate

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One of the rules in group therapy is no secrets. The members become your support system, and everyone can talk about anything they want, without limitations.

December 2, 2020 Books

Finding the silver linings in a dark time

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I’m having a good quarantine. Can I say that? By Lauren Apfel

April 24, 2020 Culture

Parenting in the time of coronavirus

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We want to hear from you. Motherwell is here to tell your stories.

March 17, 2020 Culture

A story of healing in a dressing room

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The last time I stood here I tried on eight dresses. I was fighting the side effects from chemo. I had no hair. By Krista Genevieve Farris

February 19, 2020 Parenting Challenges

It’s my birthday. This is why I’m making my own cake.

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I’d rather take the time to create something I want than to compromise. In a small, sugared way, I see it as a rebellion. By Shannon Williams

January 23, 2020 Culture

When lost loved ones are still with us at the holidays

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We pull ornaments from boxes labeled in my mother’s loopy cursive, giving our tree the same homespun look hers always had. By Mary Janevic

December 19, 2019 Parenting Challenges

How to give love as a mother when you are an unloved daughter

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“Why is she like that?” my son asks. I hesitate. There’s no denying my mother’s passive aggressive disdain towards me. By Elizabeth Maria Naranjo

September 4, 2019 Parenting Challenges

Learning again how to pass the time

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Cell phones do not work here, and on a good day it takes only ten minutes to open email. By Mindy R. Roll

August 22, 2019 Family

The day I helped my mother pick out a wig

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My mom took off her scarf and revealed her bald head. We all braced ourselves, but the woman at the shop didn’t flinch. By Kandace Chapple

July 16, 2019 Parenting Challenges

It’s possible to stay too long at the fair

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These words by Joan Didion summed up my twenties, but they also capture the predicament of my current midlife crisis. By Elizabeth Newdom

May 20, 2019 Parenting Challenges

Finding the breath in the day-to-day routine of parenthood

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As parents sometimes it’s a struggle to carve out even a few minutes to breathe. By Steph Auteri

April 30, 2019 Family, Parenting Challenges

Yes, parenting is hard. But it gets better.

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One day infants and diaper bags and hemorrhoids and boobs won’t be hanging off of your person like you’re a cross between a human mobile and a Sherpa. By Catherine Newman

October 24, 2018 Family

Helping my mother clean out her closet, the year before she died

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After we gave it all to Goodwill, I lived in fear every day that I would see somebody else wearing my mom’s clothes. By Kandace Chapple

October 9, 2018 Parenting Challenges

The split mind of postpartum depression

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In a quiet, distant voice I tell my husband that I want to die. Not exactly dead, I clarify, but not this. By Laura G. Owens

April 10, 2018 Parenting Challenges

My war against squirrels, bullets and grief

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Fourteen teenagers and three teachers are dead who were not dead a few of weeks ago, and my house is falling apart, and my children are at school. By Brianne DeRosa

March 6, 2018 Culture

Home again, this time caring for my mother

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You’re there because some nights she gets lost in the hallway on the way to the bathroom. You’re there because she has lost herself. By Amie McGraham

March 5, 2018 Family

What to expect when you are unexpecting

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Nobody will send flowers. You don’t even have a face to conjure when you think of this child. By Maggie Downs

February 28, 2018 Parenting Challenges

36 life decisions I don’t regret, even now

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To throw away the cigarettes, and choose to run instead. To stop running when my hips hurt, and walk instead. By Kathleen Harris

February 21, 2018 Culture

Can’t we just say no to overscheduling our kids?

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I’m not sure when doing nothing after school fell out of favor. As a kid, I was a pro at nothing. We all were. By Francie Arenson Dickman

February 1, 2018 Culture, Parenting Challenges

When three steps on the crosswalk saved my daughter’s life

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For what seems like a single frame of the video, I see my child silhouetted in the lights of the oncoming car. By Ian Smith

January 25, 2018 Parenting Challenges

The day I learned to accept my son’s rare kidney disease

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I held his illness deep inside me the way I would hold shame. In the dark, it rotted and grew. By Laura Leffler

October 24, 2017 Parenting Challenges

My daughter’s anxiety has grown with her

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We trot her out into the world, trying to help her gain confidence through exposure. But it only lasts for so long.
By Linda Pressman

August 15, 2017 Parenting Challenges

Learning how to talk to my ovaries

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So why is it you want a baby, my therapist asks. Love, I answer.
By Bethany Marcel

May 16, 2017 Parenting Challenges

How to RSVP when you are going through IVF

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Sorry, can’t make it to the sorority reunion. My thermometer says I’m ovulating!
By Amy Klein

April 13, 2017 Family, Obstacles, Parenting Challenges
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