Natalie says this technique has worked for many of her clients, and herself as well.
“I found my inner writer that way! I had lost it in the third grade,” she giggles. “In my dream, I’ll never forget it. My third grade teacher appears to me and says, ‘You’re getting an A for penmanship. This essay was really good—you could be a writer some day.’ I got up, wrote it down and dated it in my computer!” laughs Natalie.
From that dream she began journaling in earnest and now writes a monthly Empty Nest newsletter and is currently completing her first book: “Empty Nest: Life Beyond Parenting.”
As we all know, there is life beyond parenting and it sometimes take a little jolt to remind us to embrace our interests and to nurture ourselves. Certainly, moms who have nurtured others for years, deserve it.
