Time to take a break.
Friendly neighborhood blog manager here. Life is doing that thing right now where it dumps a heap of overwhelm. Yet I want to preserve what’s left of my sanity. And I want to continue the string of (hopefully!) helpful posts on the ATN blog. Therefore I am taking a couple weeks off to get my ducks back in a row. The ATN blog will be back in early November. In the meantime, I don’t know about you, but I always need a little something to keep me going day to day, so here are three things that recently helped me. Maybe they will do the same for you.
- This quote:
I’ve been having a lot of difficult conversations lately that I never really wanted to have. It has helped. - This blog post, “Look Through the Eyes of Wisdom,” that a friend posted on social media in response to the above. It is a short but powerful piece. I am glad for it – it helped keep me centered in the midst of some of these conversations.
- Laurie McClean’s post, “Special Needs Parent Depression.” It reminds me that even with all the friends and support in the world, sometimes we aren’t okay. Which is in itself okay. Parenting traumatized kids is hard. Remember–you are not alone.
It is already October 16. That’s just two weeks without us. In the meantime, I would encourage you to go back through the blog. There’s a lot of really good stuff there. I don’t know about you, but sometimes I need someone to remind me of the good.
