It’s okay if back-to-school time brings up emotions for you…

It’s okay if you are avoiding Target these days because you don’t want to see moms shopping for their kids

It’s okay if you mute all your chats so you don’t have to see everyone’s first-day-of-school pictures

It’s okay if you moved to this neighborhood because it is close to a great school, but you still don’t have a child to enroll

It’s okay if you are a teacher asking yourself how you will manage another year taking care of others’ children when you still don’t have your own

It’s okay if all you can think about when you hear moms complaining about back-to-school exhaustion is how you would give anything to trade places with them

It’s okay if you cry thinking about if you will ever get to go to parent-teacher conferences

It’s okay if you are feeling particularly triggered and jealous these days

Be gentle with yourself

This time of year is hard