Reinvention Mom Blog
For ten years Cristie blogged her way through motherhood. Starting before “influencer” was even a word and blogger was a recognized profession, Cristie shared the ups, downs and tips from the trenches of a household run by a working mom of three. Here you’ll find some of those gems plus love notes from seasons moms to those still in the thick of it. Visit the blog for a real look at parenting. You’ll definitely feel better and you just might learn something too.
Curious: How Ted Lasso and I are the Same
"Guys have underestimated me my entire life and for years I never understood why – it used to really bother me. Then one day I was driving my little boy to school, and I saw a quote by Walt Whitman, it was painted on the wall there and it said, ‘Be curious, not...
Normalizing Feeling Not Normal
Anyone else find they are experiencing new sides to their personality after the last two years? Maybe it's not a personality shift, but instead a reaction to what our persons have been through since March of 2020. I attended a wedding a few weekends ago that required...
Managing Kids’ Emotions and Taking Care of You
“Explain how that experience felt for you.” “Where do you feel that in your body?” I ask these questions a lot in my therapy office. Wanna know why? The first one is to keep myself from assuming. When I was in grad school, during practice sessions, I often heard...
The Importance of Traditions
When parents ask what is the best way to connect with their kids I have a simple answer: Tradition. When I spent the first holiday season hanging around my then-boyfriend's parent's house, I noticed his three little sisters stayed home one day from school and made...
Mom Confidence
I’ve heard all the metaphors about motherhood and animal instincts. I know what mama bears look like and how lionesses protect their young. What has taken me longer to realize is the human fierce I’ve gained from being a mother. I don’t mean fierce in the America’s...
Growing Pains
I don’t remember growing pains as a child so it came as a surprise to me the first time one of my kids had them. I used to think it was just a figure of speech-growing pains. But then I had my first sleepless night with an adolescent who was writhing in pain in both...
Explicit Parenting Book
A funny thing happened a few weeks ago. I wrote a book. Actually, let me back up a few years. I didn’t just write a book last week. In 2016 I was working at a job that left me with a ton of downtime and nothing but a laptop in front of me. I had just spent a year in a...
Parenting Teens: Winter Coat Edition
I posted the picture you see above on Instagram recently. It shows the choices my teenager and I made about what was appropriate to wear outside in the snow. Clearly, posting about this incident meant I had some opinions about life with teenagers in the caption. If...