Parenting as a sensitive and/or introverted person.
Not a FIGHTER. Be my friend, lover or family member but please don’t be my competitor. I will run from you if I feel you are in any way interested in one-upping me. This is the ultimate turn off for me. I will not relax in your presence. I understand that competition is invigorating [...]
I avoid conflict. Frequent challenges to my beliefs, words or actions wear me down and suck away priceless energy. Despite that confession, I am in the middle of training to become a Family Mediator (primarily a Divorce Mediator). A strange choice for someone who avoids conflict, right? Oddly enough other people’s contention doesn’t bother me as [...]
Do you ever regret getting divorced? Is there any chance you and Jeff will get back together? I’ve recently fielded these questions. I guess people figure I have had enough time on my own to know whether I made a mistake or not. We started the divorce process last October. Jeff moved out in January. The divorce [...]
It’s summer and I’m about to hit the wall. My thinking is sludgy and my responses are slow and disconnected. Kids arguing, household disorder and interruptions galore cloud my clarity and fatigue my body. I feel like I’ve eaten a gallon of mashed potatoes and a gravy-injected turkey and washed it down with six or seven [...]
Original oil painting by Susan Roux I now know what it feels like to live without a phone, internet or television. I spent 48 hours without such technology. It felt like a warm breeze through a sundress. I always say life is about relationships and experiences. A lack of buzzing, beeps, chimes and talking [...]
Three years ago a friend asked me, If you could have anything in the world what would it be? I immediately replied, Freedom. Burned Out Mommy At that time, I felt trapped and desperately out of sync with my self. I was mentally and emotionally exhausted from the care and activity of three children, a husband and a [...]
