LIFE AFTER + 1

As a single parent, slowing down can feel really uncomfortable. Because for so long, you haven’t had the luxury of slowing down. You’ve had to hold everything together. You’ve had to keep going, keep functioning, keep showing up for your kids, even when you’re exhausted and running on empty. So, slowing down feels risky. It can feel like if you stop, everything might catch up with you, like you have no time to stop because if you do it will all fall apart. You keep moving. Yo

There is a very specific kind of pain that comes with a breakup you didn’t choose. It’s the kind that leaves you feeling blindsided. One minute you’re still holding on, still trying, still believing there’s a future, and the next, that future is taken out of your hands. You don’t just lose the relationship. You lose the life you were building in your mind. The plans. The routines. The version of yourself you were becoming within that relationship. And how do you accept someth

Are you co-parenting with a narcissist… and quietly exhausted by it? Every interaction feels so much harder than it needs to. You’re constantly second-guessing your words, walking on eggshells, bracing yourself for the next twist. One minute it’s manipulation, the next it’s blame. You’re painted as the problem, the difficult one, the unreasonable one, while you’re just trying to do what’s best for your kids. There’s no real cooperation. Everything turns into a power struggle.