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Gratitude
As the year winds down and the holiday season begins to shimmer around us, I find myself reflecting not just on what we’ve accomplished at Wings of Change, but on who we’ve become in the process. Gratitude isn’t just about success; it’s about awareness. It’s about learning from the messy, imperfect, human moments that shape us. The 30-Day Challenge That Humbled Me At the end of September, I decided I was going to do something simple but powerful: for 30 days, I wouldn’t say a
Melanie Castellari
4 days ago3 min read


Love and Communication: The Hard Truth About Reactions and Responsibility
Love isn’t always romantic. It’s the love we have for our children, our friends, our family, and even for the stranger in front of us at...
Melanie Castellari
Oct 123 min read


Finding Your Joy When Life Feels Like Too Much
Life rarely waits for the “perfect moment” to get easier before asking us to smile again. Chaos doesn’t pause for us to catch our breath....
Melanie Castellari
Oct 43 min read


Who are you
In therapy, we often come in knowing something has to change. We carry stress, grief, patterns, or pain, and sometimes it feels...
Melanie Castellari
Sep 273 min read


Be the right partner
We spend so much time looking for the right partner, when the deeper truth is this: the real work lies in being the right partner. It’s...
Melanie Castellari
Sep 212 min read


Holding Space
Suicide doesn’t need a month, or a day, or a ribbon pinned to a shirt. When you’ve lived it, when you’ve stood on the other side of that...
Melanie Castellari
Sep 142 min read


Peattie the teacher
Life Lessons From Dogs: What My 8-Month-Old Doberman Taught Me About Patience Life Lessons From Dogs: What My 8-Month-Old Doberman Taught...
Melanie Castellari
Sep 82 min read


Handling Conflict
Ever notice that the person who triggers the most conflict is often the person you care about most—or the one you see most frequently?...
Melanie Castellari
Sep 32 min read


Survival Skills
Two two-year-olds run to me. One comes with eyes wide, shining with wonder and love, certain that nothing could ever go wrong. The other...
Melanie Castellari
Aug 202 min read


Breaking the Cycle: Healing Generational Trauma
Generational trauma is often invisible, passed down quietly through families not only in the stories we share, but also in the patterns...
Melanie Castellari
Aug 202 min read


Are We Normal? The Question I Hear Most
In my office, we talk about everything. We talk about sex. We talk about money. We talk about arguments, boots left in the living room,...
Melanie Castellari
Aug 202 min read


We Need People
As a marriage and sex therapist, I hear this often. “I’m just here to work on me. I want to figure myself out so I don’t have to rely on...
Melanie Castellari
Aug 81 min read
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