boundaries

The holidays are meant to be wonderful times spent with friends and family, but they can also be terrible times. Let's stop the family food-shaming!

I'm leaving Facebook to save myself from the anguish of the 'tis the season shopping excursions and elaborate events that go hand-in-hand with the holidays.

I soon realized that admiring everyone’s seemingly perfect life was making me spiral into a pit of holiday season depression and I couldn't climb out.

I resent my family. My dad got seriously chronically ill, and everything changed. My siblings basically have done nothing to help.

This isn’t an essay about how “woke” I am — instead, it’s a journey of reclamation and standing in my power, which started with my getting sober.

Why do we have a hard time with boundaries? Many of us, especially women, were raised to be people-pleasers and caregivers.

For example, when you start cutting friends out because of your partner, it's a sure-fire indicator that something isn't right here

That night, my sister's boyfriend sent me a text message saying “sweet dreams.”