Mental health

Creative Nonfiction: Essays

Can yoga help parents of teens during the pandemic?

Motherwell

You wake up each morning never knowing which way it’s going to go. Some mornings you go into his bedroom and he starts to stir. You raise the blinds and the sun streams in. He smiles. Or, he doesn’t smile, but he doesn’t cry out, either. You smooth his hair back from his wide forehead. He can hide behind his hair, it’s getting so long. His chubby cheeks are just as smooth as when he was a little boy, before he entered this gangly phase.

Topics: Mental health, Motherhood & parenting