As I sat in my kitchen on New Years Day, I realized that for years I’d repeated this maladaptive annual cycle as if failure, guilt and self-loathing were my resolutions themselves.
As I sat in my kitchen on New Years Day, I realized that for years I’d repeated this maladaptive annual cycle as if failure, guilt and self-loathing were my resolutions themselves.
Garbed in tinsel hats and blowing horns, the children I was babysitting on New Year’s Eve darted around as if the house was on fire, squealing like baby pigs.
Under and all around the Christmas tree, as far as their widened eyes could see, were presents. Nothing but presents.
Can military child resilience turn into adult avoidance of change?