I’m rarely at a loss for words when my fingers hit the keyboard. Yet sometimes, when my mind is filled with background noise that I would rather not hear, my ability to write, gets blocked. Welcome to August. The month of undoing.

Imagine if we chose a different perspective in the way we helped others. And instead of constantly doing things for others to make ourselves more comfortable, we just ‘let them’ do it on their own? Let’s take a look at what it means to be truly helpful…

I remain in awe of motherhood to this day and am unclear if there is such a thing as a magic formula. Lately I’ve been thinking that the only real magic is in the mysterious and amazing gift of creating another human being…a unique being unlike anyone else. And then having the opportunity to be the mama.

I want you to know…I see you, I hear you, I feel your pain, your worries, and your panic. I see you on Skype, Zoom, Google Hangout…I see tissues, kids falling to the floor in tantrums, I see the fear in your eyes that you cannot pull this off.