Words from the Warren
STORIES AND PRACTICES FOR THE JOURNEY HOME TO YOURSELF
Meet the Parts of You Fighting Over Your Marriage
If you're a devoted parent — the kind who researches gentle discipline, tracks your kids' nervous systems, shows up fully — you've probably also had this experience: you know your marriage needs attention. You've read that couples who stay connected do it through...
When Your Marriage Feels Like Roommates: The Scheduling Problem Isn’t a Scheduling Problem
You make dinner while your partner runs the bath for your younger child. Your partner washes the dishes while you help your elder child practice lines for the school play. Then it's bedtime — your partner watches funny cat videos with the oldest while you snuggle with...
The Four Horsemen: Not the Apocalypse — Just a Tuesday at 6PM
It's 6PM and dinner still isn't made. One child is crying, the other needs help with their homework. You've been working all day, and you're ready to sit down for a moment when your spouse walks into the room. That's when you notice the dirty dishes sitting in the...
High-Masking Adult Burnout: When “Fine” Is Costing You Everything
I'm looking at an old photo of myself at fifteen. From the mouth down, I'm smiling. But my eyes tell a different story: wide and disengaged. The externals of my life were similarly misleading. On the outside, I performed "just fine" — good grades, never disrupting...
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