How ordinary parenting moments become shame spirals, and why learning to return, repair, and forgive yourself is part of mental fitness.By Sutton Burke, MS, LCPCAdapted Sutton Burke’s forthcoming book, Now We Play: Mental Fitness for Everyday Life. Sometimes I am in the middle of an ordinary evening with my kids. Dinner, homework, the usual. For
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• Personal trainer Eugene Pallisco says strength training helps preserve muscle, support bone density, and maintain functional fitness during menopause. • Cardio, mobility work, and recovery habits support heart health, movement quality, and daily energy levels. • Consistent exercise and nutrition habits can improve long-term health, confidence, and resilience through hormonal changes. Menopause and perimenopause
The Dining Room Table Where One Mom Built Oryx Desert Salt Every mom who has tried to build something after bedtime knows the rhythm: the toddler finally goes down, the house exhales, and whatever you’ve been waiting all day to work on gets maybe two uninterrupted hours before you collapse. For Samantha Skyring, those quiet
There is a kind of mothering that does not show up on any milestone chart. It is the work of noticing what your child might inherit before they have to carry it. For Isabella Skrypczak, founder of Iza Clara Healing and translator of her grandmother’s wartime memoir, A Polish Girl in Siberia, that work shapes
Founded by sisters and moms Kate Doerksen and Anne Pizzuti, Sage Haven is a new AI-powered messaging and calling app designed to help kids safely navigate their earliest digital interactions. The platform aims to prevent cyberbullying before it starts by blocking harmful content, coaching kinder communication, and giving parents visibility into concerning behavior without requiring
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For many women, midlife comes with questions they did not expect to be asking. Why am I so tired? Why am I not sleeping? Why do I feel anxious when I never used to? Why does my body feel different even though I have not changed much about how I live? For Tina Vidal-Duart, those
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