Getting To Know Claire

Getting To Know Claire

Hello! This is Claire Robinson, one of the newest counselors to join the Mending Roots team. It’s not often you get the chance to learn about your counselor/potential counselors, so I thought I’d invite you into some of my world and background as a counselor. In the...
What Does it Mean to be Masculine?

What Does it Mean to be Masculine?

I ask myself this a lot, frankly. The tropes, archetypes, narratives, and socially informed values of what masculine is and isn’t are, well, everywhere. Masculine identifying individuals face a consistent liminal interaction with the world. Masculinity grants...
Mastering Vulnerability: The Antidote to Dysregulation

Mastering Vulnerability: The Antidote to Dysregulation

Life can feel like a rollercoaster—full of unexpected bumps, turns, and drops. We often wear masks of “everything’s fine” to keep it all together, while inside, we’re unraveling. But vulnerability, while uncomfortable, can help us navigate life’s ups and downs with...
Why Your Child’s Self-Regulation Starts with You

Why Your Child’s Self-Regulation Starts with You

We can only learn how to manage and soothe an emotion that we allow ourselves to feel. And kids can only learn how to regulate emotions we allow them to feel. And yet, this acceptance and allowance of big feelings—in ourselves and others—can be so, so hard. Sometimes...
You Should Hire A Death Doula

You Should Hire A Death Doula

A Death doula, also known as an end-of-life doula, death midwife, or (the incredibly rad sounding) death walker, is someone who accompanies and supports people who are preparing for and navigating death. Death doulas can provide comfort, education, resources,...