MomOhLogue

I shared this book with my daughter's preschool class and think many adults could benefit from reading this too. Its simplifies the complicated, it teaches empathy,  and it helps you understand that nobody is perfect!

Staples in Patchogue did an amazing job helping me design my new cards. I also made a laminated spiral bound book of my daughter's artwork. One goal for 2019 is to work on a children's book series together. My other goal is to bring more awareness of mental health stigmatization and how stigmatization hurts people by unfairly categorizing them and creating unnecessary biases and limits. A person with cancer, MS, or missing limbs can still work and run marathons and so can people with brain disorders when under appropriate treatment.

This blog provides deep thoughts, humor, offers of help, hope, positivity, and encouragement to all humans from the perspective of a 36 year-old working Mom (of 3 almost 4 gorgeous girls) and an Independent Consultant. I earned my Master's degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Hofstra University in 2006, worked professionally in Leadership Development/HR for several years. My past experiences include over 20 years of service-industry related jobs that held me afloat while I paid my way through college, room and board and allowed me to pave the way towards a brighter future for my family. I have traveled to Italy (3 week study abroad), Chicago, LA, all states between Chicago and NYC, all states between NYC and Florida, Miami, Orlando, Aruba, and Jamaica. I grew up in Sunnyside, Queens NY and although I have lived in suburban Long Island for over 9 years now, I will always be a Queens/city girl at heart. I enjoy writing as a hobby as journaling has always been thera

Originally written in 2015... I came across a fantastic resource for Moms going through difficult post pardum changes. You know,  the temporary changes your partner and any ignorant people call, "crazy." The changes that lead to your preschooler asking you, "Mommy, why are you crying? " as she hugs and kisses you to "make you feel better." I do know what those changes really are having gone through it 3 times. It's actually a normal response to adrenaline,  other hormones, the actual painful birth process and delivery (I mean my bones spread apart and pushed through 8 pound tiny amazing humans through a much smaller hole), and the aftermath of the immediate "epidural narcotic withdrawal", the months of sleep deprivation,  and reality of my changed, bigger body that requires work if I ever want to look tight again.  I sum this all up into three words, Normal Recovery Period. To know what women go through,  look up effects of opiate wit