chevy mermelstein

She didn’t need a new plan. In June, I finished working with a mom and her nine-year-old daughter. Let’s call her Sarah. They were such an amazing pair to work with. Mom really understood her daughter, and Sarah was incredibly articulate for nine years old. She also knew exactly what she wanted. She wanted to become an independent sleeper. That was our goal. We worked together for three months, meeting every week. We always had the bigger goal in mind, but every week we set a smaller one. And...

I knew it was working. I checked anyway. One of the perks of my new oven is that it has some very clever features. Except apparently, they’re not that new. I’ve just never used them. 😂 One of them is delayed cooking. You put the food into the oven, set everything up, and tell the oven when you want it to turn on. Brilliant. I probably could have been using this for years, but it took someone actually showing me how to do it before I finally tried it. So the other day, I was going to be out...

6 a.m. I was wide awake. And my first thought was, “Yep. I told you so.” Let me back up. The night before Yom Kippur, I was getting ready for bed and thinking how nice it would be if I could sleep a little later than usual the next morning. It was a fast day. I didn’t have to get up early. Wouldn’t it be amazing if I could just sleep? Then my brain did what brains sometimes do. Watch. This will be the morning I wake up at 5 a.m. I was so convinced that this was probably going to happen that I...