How a single word changed my life as a new mother, and can change yours no matter what
In the initial weeks and months after I gave birth, there were days when I resented my husband for not doing his exact 50% share of caring for our daughter. The feeling would sit, like a festering pit of nerves, in my stomach. It tainted everything with the annoyance oozing out of it in waves. […]
Book Review: “The Art of Misdiagnosis”
In her memoir “The Art of Misdiagnosis: Surviving My Mother’s Suicide“, author Gayle Brandeis shares two interwoven storylines: her mother committing suicide right as Brandeis becomes a mother for the third time, and her childhood, peppered with health issues and hospital visits. What’s quite unique is that the red thread to connect the two narratives […]