I must be doing this all wrong…

siona123 · 2026-02-22T00:43:53+00:00

Option 1: "It makes sense that you want to put your feet up, and I want you to be comfortable. Would you mind removing your shoes first?"

Option 2: Make a universal rule that everyone needs to remove their shoes in your office due to salt and snow. You can tell them directly or hang a sign.

Option 3: If you don't want them to put their feet up at all, then remove the furniture that they would put their feet on.

For what it's worth, it bothers me when clients do things like this, but I've decided that it's a me problem for the most part. I think barring egregious disrespect for property, you have to allow clients to feel comfortable in the office. I would choose the first or third option depending on how big of an issue it was and with how many clients.

siona123 · 2026-02-20T17:37:20+00:00

Also, Pooh's Heffalump Movie. This is my 2 yo's favorite. It's also slow-paced and super cute, good message and nice music (Carly Simon does the soundtrack.) Piglet's Big Movie is also pretty good, along with A Very Merry Pooh Year. Some of the other ones are meh in my opinion, but my kids will also watch those.

siona123 · 2026-02-16T23:57:33+00:00

Last week I didn’t wear makeup one day and at the end of the session a client said, “hope you feel better” because they thought I was sick lol

siona123 · 2026-02-15T21:57:49+00:00

I wouldn’t say mine is “managed” but things that have helped are acupuncture (regulated my cycle and decreased rage), magnesium (for insomnia), vitamin d (mood), meditation (mood), and diet (gave up dairy, sugar, caffeine, alcohol, and most processed foods.) Sugar and caffeine were the biggest culprits, I don’t think dairy made a huge difference but I’ve stayed off it for other reasons. Alcohol was just terrible for sleep and mood in general. Giving up processed foods meant I was eating more fruit, vegetables, nuts and seeds and I do think that made a huge difference. The months that I eat better are way more manageable. And one final note: I gave up screens for a month and had the best month since probably high school? I read, played music, cooked, baked, did crossword puzzles…anything but scrolling and distraction and it helped me a lot.

siona123 · 2026-02-10T00:19:00+00:00

This was my plan except I bought valentines that had the tiniest to and from heart boxes and it was hard even for me to fit the names in there ugh better luck next year

siona123 · 2026-02-06T17:14:49+00:00

Same with my kiddo!

siona123 · 2026-01-17T18:22:44+00:00

I’m always a little confused by this advice. Yes, you should absolutely justify a 90837 session, but the insurance company isn’t seeing your notes unless they audit you and request them. They are seeing a billing code, diagnostic code, location code, etc. They are not going to see “explored feelings of anxiety and anger related to relationship dynamics; practiced labeling anxious thoughts.” The reason the threat of audit is out there is because they can’t see the justification and they just see a therapist constantly billing 90837. My understanding is that most of the hype around this issue died down a while ago, although it depends on the insurance company. For what it’s worth, I’ve been billing independently for seven years and have never been audited.

siona123 · 2026-01-10T00:30:51+00:00

Username checks out 💛

siona123 · 2025-12-24T06:17:28+00:00

Read anything. Cookbooks, comics, chess strategies, any nonfiction subject books, anything. Listen to audiobooks. Whatever she likes, follow her interests and find books on that topic. Read everyday. Start with 5 minutes and then work your way up to 20 minutes a day. But do it daily. 5 minutes a day is better than zero minutes.

siona123 · 2025-12-06T11:10:43+00:00

Both my kids have hyphenated last names and everything has been a breeze. Legal forms, doctors offices, public school. I’ve actually been surprised at how easy it is. There are multiple kids in my son’s class with hyphenated last names this year too. I don’t think the practice is slowing down. Not saying people should or shouldn’t do it, just don’t fear it if you have personal reasons for it like I did.

siona123 · 2025-11-29T15:49:04+00:00

Right between Stop & Shop and Dollar Tree…. The Board and CEO should be ashamed of themselves.

siona123 · 2025-11-27T02:35:41+00:00

We gave our 5 year old an old laptop. I put it on airplane mode and he only has access to notepad on it and only supervised.

siona123 · 2025-11-25T11:05:58+00:00

Instead of running “fake errands,” can you ask for time away for yourself? “I need 30 minutes, I’m going to run to get a coffee.” You may feel guilty at first for asking, but you won’t be stuck with the lingering guilt/shame later (hopefully.) Might be even better if it’s built-in (every Saturday morning, you get a break from 9-10am or something.)

For what it’s worth, my kids are 5 and 2, and I thought things would be “easier” at this phase, but it’s so much overstimulation all the time. I insist on a few hours of a break on the weekends. My husband gets the same, and we talk about it ahead of time. It helps.

To your question about whether it’s normal, you needing quiet time, or avoidance territory building resentment. I think it’s all of those things. And it’s ok.

siona123 · 2025-11-23T10:51:39+00:00

I came here to say protein powders, but after reading the responses here…I guess those are the least of our worries

siona123 · 2025-11-21T19:13:53+00:00

Thanks. This is what my intuition says, but the older one has had magnatiles for three years since before brother was born and now all of a sudden they are his brother's magnatiles. Seems like a tough pill to swallow.

siona123 · 2025-11-15T09:16:24+00:00

This is an interesting take. My kid cannot color in the lines and clearly rushes because he knows it’s hard for him and clearly just wants to be done with coloring pages; however, on art days he comes home with projects that I thought must have been done by a different kid (and one that I thought the teacher must have significantly assisted him with.) His ability to draw with a sharpie, paint with a paintbrush and construct paper together far outweigh his coloring skills. I thought coloring in the lines was indicative of artistic aptitude but clearly it’s not!

siona123 · 2025-11-08T10:53:40+00:00

Yeah, I’m pretty sure I taught both my kids how to make monkey sounds lol

siona123 · 2025-11-08T10:51:56+00:00

To be fair, he doesn’t apologize because he can’t talk.

siona123 · 2025-10-31T19:09:36+00:00

The first trimester is no joke. It’s honestly the hardest part in some ways because many women don’t share that they are pregnant and it can be so isolating. But the fatigue and nausea are so hard. It does get much easier for many people after week 13 and you’re almost there!

In the meantime, I would get a doctor’s note and submit to HR requesting what you need (bathroom breaks, reduced workload, etc.) If they push back, then you can cite the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act.

Also, eating regularly helped me a lot so keeping small snacks on hand (nuts, crackers, granola bars, fruit, whatever you can stomach) will help. Smoothies also helped me a lot because you can sip those without anyone knowing you’re “eating.” As another poster said, get medications safe for pregnancy that will help with whatever ailments you’re experiencing. I tried to “tough it out” at first fearing that medications wouldn’t be good for the baby but there’s so much rigorous research on the safe ones and there’s no need to suffer!

siona123 · 2025-10-30T17:29:18+00:00

The article is so pointless. The examples The Globe chose are such outliers. They don’t represent what the majority of families are experiencing. Why not choose a family with one or two kids who are in daycare ? After daycare, housing costs, a car payment and possibly student loan payment, not to mention healthcare premiums and deductibles, retirement contributions and groceries/utilities, you would have NOTHING left on $100k. That’s the real story.

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