
Raising Self blog
Life is challenging and beautiful
Read on for meaningful and candid reflections on adulting, parenting, and more.

Today we were us again
Love is a wild thing; it has many seasons, you have to find someone willing and able to weather them.

Family Photo Dos and Don’ts
My husband asked me a few weeks ago if we were going to take family Christmas photos, to which I responded: NAWL. Then one week before Christmas, I accidentally bought matching outfits for the entire family while Christmas shopping and decided we would just drive out to somewhere pretty and take a few photos with my fancy DSLR camera and it was an epic fail.
Kombucha Benefits & Recipe
Brewed some Kombucha Tea to kick of my post-Thanksgiving detox.
Love & Marriage: How to Choose a Marriage Counselor
This therapist didn’t get us, yet he was trying to “fix” us, and succeeded in almost breaking us. It took my husband nearly a week to convince me that we shouldn’t get a divorce.
Love & Marriage: Misadventures in Couples Counseling
We finally went to couples counseling and I finally met the therapist my husband has been seeing for a few weeks, my first impression was: seriously, da hell!?
I’m My Own Superhero
6 year old: No, I will keep it on. But what superhero am I?
Me: Super Sophie
6 year old: (smiles wide) Super Sophie