Dear Readers, Hello! It's been a minute since you've heard from me. I'm glad to be back on here sharing my life with all of you. 2024...

"Fight-or-Flight, an acute stress response, is the physiological reaction when your body is faced with something mentally or physically...

Dear Readers, Here we are, just eight hours away from the ball dropping for 2024. This is my 51st blog (you knew I wouldn't stop at 50)....

Dear Readers, When I started It Takes a Village back in April, my goal was simply to create a forum for expression that would help me...

Dear Readers, This series of my blog will focus on "lessons learned" as we close in on year one. With nostalgia and introspection often...

Dear Readers, This series of my blog will focus on "lessons learned" as we close in on year one. With nostalgia and introspection often...

Dear Readers, This series of my blog will focus on "lessons learned" as we close in on year one. With nostalgia and introspection often...

Dear Readers, This series of my blog will focus on "lessons learned" as we close in on year one. With nostalgia and introspection often...

Dear Readers, The next series of my blog will focus on "lessons learned" as we close in on year one. With nostalgia and introspection...

Dear Readers, As one might imagine, I have been feeling more nostalgic and reflective as Evie's first birthday is around the corner. In...

Dear Readers, You know those times when you can't get a certain song out of your head? It keeps playing repeatedly in your mind and the...

Dear Readers, Out of the twelve months, October bears the most symbolic similarity to my experience as a new mother. This felt like a...

Dear Readers, “At the end of the day, people won't remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.” Today's...

Dear Readers, Since becoming a mother I've become more... a lot of things, but open-minded and inquisitive come to the top of the list. ...

Dear Readers, "Man by nature is a social creature." Aristotle One piece of advice I would offer a new parent, specifically a mother, is...

Dear Readers, This week's thoughts center around what will be - not what is. We flipped the calendar to September so that means social...

Dear Readers, A mother-of-five children told me today when you meet a nine-month-old, you've met that nine-month-old. As someone who is...

Dear Readers, Today's theme centers around victory, winning and how it relates to parenthood. To add more specifics, my husband Nick won...

Dear Readers, This week's blog centers around the number "9." Evangeline turned nine months old this week, which means I have also been...

Dear Readers, I've published 33 blogs in It Takes a Village and almost all of them follow the same format of 2–3-minute non-fiction...