This last year, my business has had a lot of success. And what success looks like for us is that our staff has doubled in size, which has greatly increased the number of families we’ve been able to serve. At the same time, our outcomes continue to be measurably high. We track things like how many families complete the services they started with us, and we send satisfaction surveys at the end of services to gauge how supported and cared for people felt throughout the process. What is so...

Each year, I have the opportunity to offer parenting workshops throughout the community. One of the most consistently well-attended topics is Online and Social Media Safety for Kids. This workshop definitely has some of the higher enrollment numbers, which is not surprising given that most kids are on screens. And every time I teach this workshop, I hear the same concerns from parents: “I don’t feel like I can take the screens away.” Parents worry about what their child will do without...

Reflecting on my own experiences, as I became a mother, I saw nothing that spoke to what it meant to be soft within myself or to tend to myself in a nurturing and loving way. Conversely, there was a lot of emulation of women doing it all — with what appeared to be very little struggle, no matter how busy their lives were. For me, I did all of this while being a single parent over half the time while my kids’ dad worked full time or more at the fire department and often a second job. There was...