Finding God’s Peace Amid the Coronavirus Pandemic

March 18, 2020 1 comment Anxiety, Faith, Family, Mental Health, Motherhood, Parenting Birmingham, Birmingham Alabama, coronavirus, Dr. Leesha Ellis-Cox, drleesha, Mental Health, Parenting Dr. Leesha

The Zombie Apocalypse Minus the Zombies Neither my physician credentials nor mental health expertise have sufficiently quashed my apprehension and unease as the world faces COVID-19. This pandemic feels like the zombie apocalypse without the zombies. Numbers grow, panic ensues, resources are limited, and recommendations frequently change. Internally my heart races and my belly churns. I struggle to take the very advice I dole out to others because there is so much we still don’t know. Questions like When will this end? Will the entire country shut down? Fear swirls around in my mind, and doubt threatens my peace. I […]

A Special Kind of Love

March 4, 2020 2 comments Family, Motherhood, Parenting Dr. Leesha

I heard it for years – boys love their mamas. Yet, this was of no consequence to me until my Evan was born, my second baby and my only son. Raising a son I have no brothers and thus no personal experience upon which to lean. I remember feeling a bit perplexed after discovering that we would be having a boy. I know all things “girl” from dresses and tutus to princesses and unicorns to hair and makeup to sassy girl attitude, but this boy thing was altogether different. All I had was the parenting pearls of other boy moms […]

Love Lessons for Moms

February 8, 2020 0 comments Motherhood, Uncategorized drleesha, family, love, Parenting, parenting truth, positive parenting Dr. Leesha

February is for Love For me, the month of February represents all things love – love of God, love of self, love of family, love of a significant other, love of community, and love of people. Love makes me feel all warm and fuzzy on the inside. Real love nurtures, sustains, covers, and creates space for vulnerability and faults. And, love is the currency of motherhood. Love Lessons for Mom Your identity exists beyond your role as mom – As mothers, many of us deem parenting our life’s greatest work and our children as our most significant contribution to the […]

Mom, Put that Cape On!

January 29, 2020 4 comments Mental Health, Motherhood, Parenting, Women's Mental Health Dr. Leesha

I know, moms. It’s gets confusing. Society and our well-meaning mommy friends voice compelling declarations from “You’re no superhero” to “Girl, take off your cape” and “You are not supermom. Ain’t nobody got time for that.”

MLK 2020: A Dream Deferred?

January 20, 2020 0 comments Uncategorized Dr. Leesha

Today, Monday, January 21, 2020, we honor and celebrate the life and legacy of the late Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr – a man who, along with other civil rights heroes, shouldered the weight of the fight for racial injustice and equality for black people in America; a man who championed love over hatred, freedom over oppression, and peace over violence; and a man whose life was brutally stolen when he was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel at the tender age of 39. His words so eloquently spoken some 55+ years ago ring as true today as they did […]

What’s Your Word?

January 1, 2020 2 comments Uncategorized Dr. Leesha

The Word Collector One of my favorite new children’s books is The Word Collector by Peter H. Reynolds, a delightful tale of a young boy named Jerome who discovers his love of words. An avid collector, Jerome begins collecting all manner of words, long and short, colorful and musical, and those that dance off your tongue or rumble in your belly. Like Jerome, I have gathered my own repertoire of words over the years; words that encourage and inspire and ones that perfectly capture my mood and keenly express the complexity of my thoughts. Now that the new year and […]

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