Going Beyond the Shoulds in Mid-Life
For many women, early adulthood feels like a track laid out in advance: go to school, find a partner, build a career, start a family. These “shoulds” are often handed to us without question—not just by society, but by well-meaning family, peers, and even our own younger selves who were trying to do the “right” thing.
Parenting During Perimenopause
There’s a moment many of us don’t talk about—standing in the kitchen, tears welling for no clear reason, your child asking a perfectly reasonable question, and you snapping back with more intensity than you meant to.