I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!
Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.
We have little power to choose what happens, but we have complete power over how we respond.
Why worry about minor little details like clean air, clean water, safe ports and the safety net when Jesus is going to give the world an "Extreme Makeover: Planet Edition" right after he finishes putt...
The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.
There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface.
America is a country ready to be taken, in fact, longing to be taken by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.
There is nothing like becoming a mom to fill you with fear.
Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen.
We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.
British historian Tony Judt died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s disease, in 2010. In an extraordinary interview with Terry Gross on NPR’s Fresh Air, Judt explained that with a sever...
What is success? It is being able to go to bed each night with your soul at peace. —PAULO COELHO
You are not your bank account, or your ambitiousness. You’re not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You’re not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are...
Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say so what. That’s one of my favorite things to say. —ANDY WARHOL
Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.
The poet Mark Nepo defines sacrifice as giving up with reverence and compassion what no longer works in order to stay close to what is sacred. So recognizing when habits are no longer working for us a...
Giving up drugs is easy compared to dealing with the emotions drugs protected you from. Learning to be vulnerable without shame and accepting our emotions without judgment becomes much easier when we...