When It Feels Like You’re the Only One Who’s Alarmed
By: Mary Coughlin Published on: 20/06/2025When you’re the one feeling the alarm bells—and your partner seems calm—it can feel disorienting, even lonely. This heartfelt reflection explores what it means to love each other through different responses to a chaotic world, and how naming your truth can deepen connection, not divide it.
We Begin on Friday
By: Mary Coughlin Published on: 01/06/2025In this final post of the Presence Prelude series, Mary Coughlin shares the origin story behind The Presence workshop and offers a heartfelt invitation to gather on June 6. This is a call to remember what healing presence truly means—in the NICU and beyond.
Democracy in the NICU — Care, Consent, and Control
By: Mary Coughlin Published on: 27/05/2025A trauma-informed lens on the NICU as a microcosm of democracy—exploring power, consent, and care as acts of relational justice and healing.
The Other Half — Misogyny, the ERA, and the Legacy of Exclusion
By: Mary Coughlin Published on: 20/05/2025A trauma-informed reflection on gender, the ERA, and why the exclusion of women from democracy and care systems remains a national wound.
