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Friends, Finally: How My Mom and I Finally Got Along

Asking other women who are also someone’s daughter: Growing up, was your mother your best friend? My mom wasn’t. But I know she tried. As I write this, I am finally friends with mom. In fact, she is my best friend.

It is only now that I am a mother myself that I often look back at situations she and I went through together. I would wonder what thoughts went through her head; what she would tell herself so she could soldier through them.

I would wonder how many times she cried herself to sleep.

5 Ways to Help Senior Family Members Age Independently

Family, Life

When our loved ones get older, it’s hard to see their physical and mental abilities deteriorate. With many of us preferring our senior loved ones to stay at home in their final years, it’s important that they are well looked after and cared for. With that in mind, here are five ways to help senior family members age independently.

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Growing Through Grief: About My Father

Family, Healing, Life, Personal Growth, Spirit

My father was a Vietnam veteran who suffered from PTSD. A part of me always grieves for him, for how he suffered and how his illness affected our family. And a part of me will always grieve for the little girl whose father came back from war a stranger, and for the relationship we never got to have.

His illness took him away from me, from his family, from the man he was before. [Read more…] about Growing Through Grief: About My Father

Friends, Finally: How My Mom and I Finally Got Along

5 Ways to Help Senior Family Members Age Independently

Growing Through Grief: About My Father

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