During my first year of full time motherhood, I received a very big wake up call about my ability to mitigate stress in a way my family was not affected. Let’s be real. Motherhood isn’t this dream life where you wake up in the morning and float on clouds all day as you focus on…
A couple of years ago I was a functional mess. And looking back, I had been that way for a while. I had just been masking it pretty well. My “mess” didn’t necessarily look chaotic or disorganized on the outside. In fact, anyone who didn’t know me well probably thought I really had my shit…
My intuition is wildly accurate…I just had this feeling when I married my husband that I was going to struggle to have children. I even remember commenting this to my husband and sister in law on the day we got married. …I wasn’t wrong. I’m currently pregnant for the fourth time but have only birthed…
I have had a love/hate relationship with the holidays ever since I had to start adulting and became responsible for other people’s holiday magic. I’m sure you can relate! There’s just SO MUCHTO DO and too often my to-do list becomes overwhelming and detracts from the magic. This year, I decided to do an experiment…
The last 10 years of my life have been a lesson on how important it is to remain connected to myself in order to remain connected to the people I love. And I feel my two most recent careers have given me a very unique perspective on this. As a Probation and Parole Agent, I…
Note: This post contains affiliate links If you’ve taken Psych 101, you have most likely heard about attachment theory. Now, there has been a lot of research about how children develop attachments to their primary caregivers and how their attachment affects them as they grow into adulthood. What the research shows is that the way…
If you know me, or used to know me, but have not really interacted with me on a personal level in the last 2 years…no you don’t. Because that version of Erin no longer exists. You see, the last two years of my life have been my most transformative years to date. I’ve learned a lot…
There’s cookies to bake, presents to buy and wrap, decorations to put up, parties to attend or host, Christmas dinners to plan, Elf on the Shelf activities to plan and execute, the list goes on… Sometimes even just thinking about everything I have to do to prepare for or celebrate the holidays makes me feel…
There’s a million ways to celebrate the Holidays and, I don’t know about you, but sometimes I get through the Holidays and think, “Yeah…I celebrated…but not in the way I really wanted to.” Or, “I wish I would have spent more time doing this thing or that thing, because it would have made them more…
I miss the holiday season from my childhood… Maybe you can relate? As a kid you never really have to do anything to prepare, plan or execute, you just show up and partake in all of the fun! As an adult, I’m hanging out somewhere between wanting to relive the holiday magic along with my…