Amanda AndersonMay 185 minCool Moms Go To TherapyMy daughter's friends think she's lucky, because instead of just sending her to therapy, I go myself.
Amanda AndersonMay 135 minFive Things a Mama Friend Needs to Have – and Five She Doesn’tMoms need friends who help them be present with their children. Here are some tips to recognize these precious people.
Amanda AndersonMay 44 minCrying in the Card AisleIf Mother's Day is painful, it may be because we are expecting superlatives instead of realistic human moms and relationships with them.
Amanda AndersonApr 225 minCurse Words, In Three CategoriesI want to point out a couple of things that make cuss words in the mouth of Jesus followers an unholy alliance.
Amanda AndersonApr 144 minLet’s Stop This Crazy Talk “Crazy” has become the word we use for unprecedented events, tragedies, and unforeseen circumstances. The first part of Why Words Matter.
Amanda AndersonApr 64 minI'll Take Off My Shoes If You Ask Me ToWe've been invited, in so many ways, into people's personal space. Let's work on respecting that privilege.
Amanda AndersonMar 315 minSearching for the Small ShootsI started reading about Post Traumatic Growth in the summer of 2020, because I was feeling, well, traumatized. Rather than lament all...
Amanda AndersonMar 314 minWhat Did I Learn in the Pandemic? It's Too Soon To Tell.This is Part Three of a Three-Part Series I set out this week to write about what I learned about being an extrovert during two years of...
Amanda AndersonMar 315 minLoving Your Extroverted Loved Ones Part OnePart One of a Three-Part Series Growing up in church, Sundays meant we were going to church service and then fellowship on the patio. Our...
Amanda AndersonMar 316 minThe Inner Life of ExtrovertsI am one of those moms to whom their children have to give instructions before they walk into a social setting. “Mom, don’t dance in...
Amanda AndersonMar 315 minI’ll Be There For You (But In a Grown-Up Way)If you’ve read my long enough or heard me speak, you know that I eventually understood myself to be codependent: a helper, fixer, and...
Amanda AndersonMar 314 minDoes Anyone See Me?This Is Part Three of the Series: Why Risk Real Relationships. Lately I’ve been finding myself nostalgic for the communities of my past....
Amanda AndersonMar 314 minExposing Our Weirdness to the LightI'm convinced that no one is capable of seeing how weird they are on their own. And knowing you are like, unhealthy weird, is pretty...
Amanda AndersonMar 315 minGood News: You’re Probably NormalThis is Part One of a four-part series: Why Risk Real Relationships. For the last year, I’ve been going through a bit of a complex...
Amanda AndersonMar 314 minPart Three: The Invaluable Lessons I Learned from IntrovertsLast week I called my friend Jodi to check on her. Jodi is one of my favorite people, one of the J’s I dedicated my book to. (See Chapter...
Amanda AndersonMar 314 minPart Two: What’s Not Wrong with IntrovertsThe pandemic continues, but we’re also processing part of the pandemic. We went a year with no weddings, no kids’ birthday parties, no...
Amanda AndersonMar 314 minPart One: On Loving Introverts, Quietly and for Short Periods of TimeParenting an introvert is awkward. For example: For years, I hosted a number of annual neighborhood gatherings. If they were “supposed”...
Amanda AndersonMar 313 minWhy I Stuff My Own StockingIt’s advent season and all my wonderful writer friends are writing deep posts about spiritual things, and I love reading them. But I’m...
Amanda AndersonMar 314 minBoundaries and the HolidaysMy husband and I like to say that we broke in two sets of grandparents. Jeff and I are the firstborns in both our families. We got...
Amanda AndersonMar 314 minThe Kind of Old Lady I Want To BeIn, Anne of Windy Poplars written by L.M. Montgomery in 1936, a character I’ll simply call Old Lady, said, “This is a degenerate age,...