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Your kids are able to make their own plans, get places on their own, navigate life. Sort of. But they still need you, and now, so do your parents. Older woman being hugged by younger woman, representing the Sandwich Generation. What makes being part of the Sandwich Generation so exhausting isn’t just that there’s too much to do. It’s that your entire emotional orientation is split in two directions at once. You are standing between people who are moving toward expansion and p

Before we get into this, if you’d rather listen than read, you can watch a clip of my talk from the other night, here: https://tinyurl.com/stillmetherapy I had the opportunity to speak on a panel with the Konenki Group recently; my part was about how many of us start to think and feel about our bodies and our selves as we reach perimenopause and menopause. There’s often this assumption that by the time we reach midlife, we are “supposed to” (what does that even mean?) have

Let’s be real: insurance is broken . Not because people are lazy or trying to “game the system.” Not because clients aren’t doing enough. But because the system itself was never designed for the complexity of being human—especially when it comes to mental health. If you’ve ever tried to use your insurance for therapy and walked away feeling confused, discouraged, or vaguely ashamed for not understanding the rules, nothing has gone wrong. You’ve just collided with a system tha