Catching up with an old friend was so fun, it was like no time had passed. We both have two daughters & were talking about how different they are from their siblings. She shared with me concerns that maybe her younger one was quieter than her sister because they’d grown up in two different environments with different support systems. Was it her fault for moving their family away from a close knit group of families & friends the older daughter had as a child? This was a questi

In my narrative and culture when you’re young you belong to your father, then you belong to your husband, and after that you belong to your son. This probably isn’t your experience. But, we’ve ALL internalized beliefs from our culture, parents, siblings, peers etc. You can’t be human and avoid the expectations that are put on us. When Gangotri Garg realized that the goals-everything she’d worked for- in her life were shoulds, it was suffocating. She felt like the walls were c