Family
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Help Your Child To Be a Trans Ally
Since 1970, June has been globally celebrated as Pride Month. It is a time dedicated to remembering the LGBTQIA+ community’s struggle for civil rights. It is also a time dedicated to celebrating its culture, history, and positive impact. Pride Month is celebrated not only by the LGBTQIA+ community but also by people outside it. The […]
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Speak Your Teen’s Love Language
Once a child becomes a teenager, they become distant from their parents and are harder to connect with. However, you can strengthen your relationship by speaking your teen’s love language. Let’s take a look. What are the five love languages? According to Healthline, “The five love languages are words of affirmation, quality time, physical touch, acts […]
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When a Loved One Needs Hospice Care
The words “hospice patient” and “Alaskan vacation” don’t usually go together. But for my 82-year-old mother, it was a perfect fit. Two months after her cancer diagnosis, she sat beside me on the deck of a cruise ship, closing her eyes with pleasure as she felt the ocean breezes again. Enrolling in hospice early gave […]
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Starting the Conversation With Older Loved Ones
To state the obvious, midlife can be stressful. Many of us find ourselves not only middle-aged and menopausal but also somewhere between caring for our children and caring for aging parents or other older loved ones. Sometimes, we can get so swept up in the incessant grind of daily life that we overlook the benefit of proactively […]
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International Women’s Day: Motherhood – The Greatest and the Most Challenging Journey!
“At some level, every mother is a single parent!” The above quote may not apply to every family unit. Still, it applies to a majority of them. Sad, but very accurate! Despite having partners/spouses, parents, and in-laws to help, it is a very challenging journey for a woman on the path to motherhood. Even though […]
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Even Adult Children Need A Healthy Childhood
As adults, many of our emotional problems are due to disturbing childhood events. Therefore, to be an emotionally healthy adult, it is crucial to have a normal childhood. While the definition of normal varies from person to person, there are some standards that one must meet. As a mental health advocate, here are some tried […]
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Taking Care of Aging Parents – For Longer Than Ever
From 1950 until today, life expectancy in the United States has gone from 68.14 to 79.11, according to Macrotrends. What this means is more midlifers or “young elderly” are facing a phenomenon that separates us from previous generations. We must deal with the care of and commitment to our parents who are living longer, and […]
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5 Things Your Daughter Has to Say About Your Menopause
You’ve started menopause, so mum’s the word — or is it? From birth, through the shy or alarming first experience of menstruation, and to the final one in menopause, mothers have a unique opportunity to influence their daughter’s understanding of growing and aging. After interviewing a group of daughters about their thoughts on their menopausal […]
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How to Build Healthy Adult Relationships with Your Children?
Did your children move out of the house, and now the absence makes your heart grow fonder? Yet, you can’t find a common ground for this new development. Research shows that the parent-children relationship declines as the children grow older and become independent. Most times, parents struggle to let go of the child-like imagination of […]
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The Grandparent Trap
In their self-titled album, Crosby, Stills, Nash sang “Helplessly Hoping,” which was written by Steven Stills about his relationship with the folk singer Judy Collins. There is a refrain or chorus in that song that I always related to family. When does a family become its unit? You can call it a squad or a […]
