A few things have changed since I became a parent. One of those things is my approach to being patient. Patience can mean a lot of things: the ability to wait for something you want (or want to happen), the ability to tolerate delays, the ability to abide in discomfort until it has passed, among others. For me this feels very related to resilience, or the ability to recover from challenges. If you are able to remain patient, you may …
Tag: Personal
I know now that I'm not a lemon. But I think I still need to talk about how bad things got, and how quickly after I gave birth. In the early, delirious, sleep-deprived days, there was …
Moms matter, too. I know that probably seems obvious but to me, in the throes of postpartum, it wasn’t. Sure, people were concerned with how I was doing, but they were mostly concerned with how the …