by Melanie Makovsky | Sep 26, 2022 | Shalom
Until about ten years ago I had never heard of Imposter Syndrome, but when someone introduced me to the term I knew exactly the feeling the term describes. If you’re not familiar, imposter syndrome is a newly-coined term for the feeling that one gets when he finds...
by Melanie Makovsky | Sep 19, 2022 | Shalom
My house is a one-level ranch-style home that is around fifty years old but has been well cared for and remodeled a bit in its interior. At the center of my house is the largest room, with an open floor plan kitchen and a large space with a window and a gas fireplace....
by Melanie Makovsky | Sep 12, 2022 | Shalom
When I wrote last week about the multiple inferences contained in the Hebrew word shalom, I realized quickly that any attempt on my part to explain the many implications and nuances of meaning it can have would be pretty inadequate. For one thing, this is a topic that...
by Melanie Makovsky | Sep 7, 2022 | Shalom
How many advertisements have you seen so far today? Think of everything you’ve looked at thus far. Consider commercials on television, on the radio, on podcasts. Ads that pop up in the middle of any good YouTube video. The banner and block ads on just about...
by Melanie Makovsky | Aug 29, 2022 | Boundaries
The concept of relationship boundaries is designed to enable us to clarify our expectations and ensure that our interactions with others are both appropriate to the relationship and comfortable, or at least non-confrontational, for everyone involved. But what about...
by Melanie Makovsky | Aug 22, 2022 | Boundaries
I sit, barely upright, on the enormous blue IKEA couch with my enormous blue breastfeeding pillow and my tiny son, who is two months old. He’s been nursing for about fifteen minutes now, and I can see that he is gradually falling asleep, but as I repetitively wiggle...
by Melanie Makovsky | Aug 15, 2022 | Boundaries
Let me start by telling you, right from the get-go, that anxiety is my biggest mental health problem right now. I can offer excuses, and I do know why my fears and anxieties have increased and changed over the last few years, but in the end, I am writing to you not as...
by Melanie Makovsky | Aug 8, 2022 | Boundaries
On July 20th my husband Eric and I celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary. We didn’t buy each other gifts or make a big deal out of it. We spent the day in the car, driving from one Colorado town to another, and finishing the day off at a Mexican restaurant before...
by Melanie Makovsky | Jul 17, 2022 | Boundaries
In my younger years I was an idealist. I looked at the world and I saw right and wrong, and for the life of me I couldn’t figure out why some people did things that, in my mind, were blatantly wrong and harmful. For example, my dad smoked, like a lot of people did in...
by Melanie Makovsky | Jul 10, 2022 | Boundaries
When I was pregnant with my third child, my youngest son, Henry, my husband and I knew we wanted to have a home birth. Our two older children, who were five and six years old at that time, were both born in a birth center and entirely outside of a hospital setting,...
