Hearing Out Life Drama  Blog

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...

Not every relationship needs to last forever. But many are worth the effort of repair.

Long ago, I found myself in conflict with someone I was working closely with—someone whose relationship mattered deeply to the work we were doing together. What s...

Doubt has a way of showing up right when you think you’ve got things figured out.

You make a decision. You take a leap. You feel certain.
And then… the silence. The wait. The waver.
And doubt starts whispering: What if you made the wrong choice?

It’s...

Life change is inevitable. It’s not a glitch in the system. It is the system.

Personally, I think of it as earth school. From the moment we’re born, we are in a continuous state of becoming—and letting go.

But knowing that doesn’t make it easier wh...