Hearing Out Life Drama  Blog

Losing a friend is a particular kind of grief.

It doesn’t always come with rituals or recognition. There may be no cards, no casseroles, no permission to talk about how much it hurts. And yet, the loss can be just as profound as any other. Sometimes...

For many people, expressing emotions isn’t something they were ever taught. It wasn’t modeled. It wasn’t named. It wasn’t practiced. It simply… wasn’t done.

In some families, emotions were treated like interruptions. In others, they were ignored unt...

Loneliness doesn’t always look the way we expect it to.

Sometimes it’s obvious — the quiet after a loss, the empty chair, the long stretch of days without real conversation. Other times it shows up in much subtler ways. You can be surrounded by peop...

If parenting young children is about holding tight, parenting teens is about learning to let go—a little at a time.

It can feel disorienting, even painful, when a teenager who once reached for your hand now rolls their eyes at your suggestions, guar...

Most of us learned to say no before we could form full sentences. It’s one of our earliest expressions of autonomy. But somewhere along the way, many of us started second-guessing it. We began replacing “no” with “maybe,” “sure,” or silence—especiall...

I was sitting alone at a restaurant, eating dessert.

It wasn’t a dramatic moment. Just a quiet table, a fork, and a plate with half the dessert still there. And suddenly, I couldn’t breathe.

Normally, that dessert would have been shared. There woul...