Michelle Diaz

Tantrum Tamers For When You Flip Your Lid I wish I could blame the Super Moon, but I think most of the fault falls on me when I Flip My Lid. It was a short time ago, the night before […]

A Minute for Menopause Growing up, I’d often hear people reference “The Change” like it was some ominous, unstoppable disease or illness that happens to women when they […]

Not My Circus The past several years have felt like a lesson in letting go. From sending one bird from my nest each year for the past few years, (why did I have […]

Redefining Rest She finally sat down to rest. A warm cup of tea in her hands, a favorite show queued up, the house finally — blessedly — quiet. And then it sta […]

Do It Scared It started about a year and a half ago, when I was stretched to the very end of my rope in my job as a first grade teacher and made up my mind that […]

New Season, New Frame I am on the brink of a totally new season. I guess we’ll call it “emptier nester”.  As of next fall, only one of my three boys will be left at home […]

Growth Mindset Cultivating Growth  Failures. Mistakes. Disappointments.  It’s something we are faced with each and every day of our human experience.  Some of u […]

Beyond the Buzz “Mental Health” has gone from buzz to BUZZ in recent years. While this can only be seen as a positive shift, I’m curious how many of us even know […]

What You’re Thinking About How often do you think about what you’re thinking about? With life moving at a breakneck pace these days, I’m guessing not nearly often eno […]

Correction Fluid Some of us might be old enough to remember the pasty white liquid. That distinct smell that made an appearance whenever we’d made a mistake. We c […]