Health + Wellness

As an elementary teacher for students with learning disabilities, I’ve spent countless hours navigating the Exceptional Student Education (ESE) program services to address the pressing needs of my students. Having supported numerous families with children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum...

Matthew's Story: In December 2004, our youngest son, Matthew, was born after an uneventful pregnancy. In fact, he achieved typical developmental milestones until about fifteen-eighteen months of age. Then he began to regress, lost words and eye contact, started lining...

If you're a mom, wife, friend, or human being you know that every day is a struggle of some kind for one reason or another. None of us are living our best lives without genuine effort or readjusting our...

I have always enjoyed helping others. My mother was the same way. She would spend her last dollar to help another mom out. I definitely got that from her. I believe in paying things forward and I try my best...

It is 8:00 p.m. and I just realized I am out of strawberry milk for my son who has to have it in his lunch box, or one of the children has just reminded me they need something for school...

Our phones are always with us. The button to bring the Home Screen to life is an arm’s length away. The buzz or ding is within earshot. The option to escape into a curated news feed is on your...

Aging gracefully…Psshhh, yeah right! Remember that cheer at the football game way back when from the squad? Cheerleading, pep…whatever it was at your school. I was never one of those called to that specific task but I did love school...

"Grab a tissue and wipe your face," I said to my youngest daughter while sitting in the morning car line. She was crying. The drama began a few minutes earlier when I styled her hair. She wanted her usual pigtails....

Living a balanced life while in service to others. "Hello, my name is Hannah, and I'm a doer." I've often imagined an AA-type support group for people, like myself, who live their lives as chronic doers. I come from a...

Post-traumatic stress disorder, better known as PTSD, is more common than you think. It affects 3.5 percent of US adults every year, meaning one out of 11 people will be diagnosed with PTSD in their lifetime. Many people do not...