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,...
