Earlier this month I was in the carpool line for summer camp when I realized I had missed dress-up day. Again. Red, white, and blue everywhere. Glitter on the counselors' cheeks. My son trotted off in his standard blue and I drove away without guilt — because I had already decided dress-up day wasn't a priority. That decision is what this piece is about. Prefer to read? Here's the full article. My son and I need to wait in the carpool line for camp counselors to come out and

Most of us were taught somewhere along the way that pushing through hard feelings is the responsible thing to do. Get up. Do the thing. It doesn't matter how you feel. It sounds practical. It costs more than most people realize. Prefer to read? The full article is below. Like many people, I thought that getting through hard feelings meant setting them aside. I told myself countless times as a young single mother, “Jennifer, it doesn’t matter how you feel, get up.” The problem

Most of us have been there. Something happens — maybe it's your fault, maybe it isn't — and your first instinct is to point at whatever or whoever caused it. That's human. That's normal. But how long you stay in that place, and what you do to get out of it, is entirely up to you. That's what this piece is about. Several little experiences over the last couple of weeks that just keep reminding me of how easily we can get lost in blame and why it’s important not to. It’s sneaky

This piece started with someone else's words and ended up somewhere very personal. Ryan Vet wrote a beautiful article about motherhood and the erosion of community that stopped me in my tracks. I had too many thoughts for a comment. So I wrote this instead. Below is my full response — and if you'd rather watch me talk through it unscripted, the video is waiting for you at the bottom. Isolation hits differently when you're raising a child with special needs. As a mother of a c

In every single room I’ve been in, I’ve heard one overwhelming issue. “How do we get people to show up?”

I was standing in Barnes and Noble the other day, waiting to meet with a friend. It was busy, I was a little early, scanning the Non-fiction section of recently ‘hot items’ waiting for my friend to arrive. I was thinking about authoring my own book. Should I write? Why would I write? WHAT would I write? And I was suddenly struck with this desperate feeling. Surprisingly, it wasn’t a desperate internal judgment, like “how could I ever compete with Mel’s book” (though I do

The holidays are here — and for many professionals and leaders, that means things speed up just as our energy starts to slow down. In this new Consider Jennifer episode, I talk about something I call The Stability Gap — the space between the steadiness we need and the pace we push ourselves to keep. It’s that subtle disconnect that shows up when our nervous system, focus, and schedule aren’t moving in sync — and it’s one of the biggest reasons we end up feeling reactive, di

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