CTWorkingMoms | An online community for women balancing work & family
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CT Working Moms (CTWM) is an award-winning, online community for women balancing work and family life in Connecticut. The website provides critical resources and information ranging from pregnancy and child-care to health and nutrition. CTWM’s aims to be a place of compassion and support for all moms because the world needs more love and less judgment.
CTWorkingMoms | An online community for women balancing work & family
10M ago
What can you say when your heart turns to gray When your insides turn out for all to see? What can you say when you’re in so much pain you bleed out over everyone you meet? When you push away the people you cannot keep? What can you say to keep the monsters at bay,… Read More Ode to Manic Depression ..read more
CTWorkingMoms | An online community for women balancing work & family
1y ago
I don’t know what came over me. After several years of being staunchly anti-diet-culture and unapologetically body positive, shortly after donating my last pair of pre-baby-size pants, I had one bad night and signed up for a free trial of a weight loss program. I’ve been having an identity crisis ever since. Some background: aside… Read More Losing Weight or Losing Myself ..read more
CTWorkingMoms | An online community for women balancing work & family
1y ago
I am a speech-language pathologist. Part of my work is to teach teens strategies to become better social communicators, forge connections with others, and navigate socially problematic situations effectively. In other words, I teach them how to be a friend. As a working mother in her forties my friendships with others have been extremely difficult… Read More Dear Friend ..read more
CTWorkingMoms | An online community for women balancing work & family
1y ago
I was casually shopping for my nine-year-old daughter the other day and was confronted by a child sized t shirt that said: “Perception is reality” I used to believe that statement with my whole heart. It must have been ingrained in me by a nun along the way. The nuns that schooled me were wise… Read More Don’t Let your Whole Personality be an Instagram Filter ..read more
CTWorkingMoms | An online community for women balancing work & family
1y ago
I live in southern New England and while our winter this year has been relatively quiet (mild and minimal snow) it has still been marked with the typical cold and dreary weather that defines winter. I am not a fan of winter and as I have gotten older the season has been harder and harder… Read More Winter Expects Nothing ..read more
CTWorkingMoms | An online community for women balancing work & family
1y ago
Anxiety. It has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. It is hard to shake and is ever so persistent. Even when I wanted it to leave me alone it found a way to sneak back in. I have vivid memories of thinking my father was dying, or watching… Read More Happily Medicated ..read more
CTWorkingMoms | An online community for women balancing work & family
1y ago
I think it’s safe to say most of us are taught to avoid pain. We grow up being told to be careful, slow down, look before you leap, think before you act–all instructions to follow if we want to prevent pain. If we do suffer pain or injury of some kind, we are then taught… Read More Feel Before You Heal ..read more
CTWorkingMoms | An online community for women balancing work & family
1y ago
This morning, still bleary-eyed, I handed my 9-year-old daughter a $5 bill. She’s been asking me lately what she can do around the house to earn money. I had been brushing her off, as it was hard to think of little projects and chores for her beyond the daily norm. But then in a lightbulb… Read More Sleep and Lack Thereof: A Timeline ..read more
CTWorkingMoms | An online community for women balancing work & family
1y ago
It is beautiful and amazing and all the things we feel watching our little people grow into the best version of themselves. Then one day they are these amazing independent people, and they are off on their own, and don’t need to lean on us anymore or need us quite as much.… Read More Mothering Through the College Years ..read more
CTWorkingMoms | An online community for women balancing work & family
1y ago
Rest assured on the nights when you are lying awake as you ponder how such a tiny being can possibly take up an entire king size bed, that they won't sleep in your bed forever. … Read More They Won’t Sleep In Your Bed Forever ..read more