Practicing holding space for our children to have big feelings while also holding space for ourselves is important.

You are not failing. You are not defective. You are enough. You are a good and loving mom.

We parents can get very caught up in trying to be perfect. We don’t even know we are trying to be perfect; we just feel bad all the time...

Marigold’s son, James, was articulate and extremely sensitive. He regularly had jumbo reactions to junior stimuli.