Whinypaluza Wednesday

What we Focus on – College Edition

August 27, 2025

What we Focus on – College Edition

❤️‍🩹A week ago, I arrived home from dropping my son off at Cornell. I asked myself, “How could I have dropped my son off and left him there all alone?”

😭I knew it was the “right” thing to do but it couldn’t have felt more wrong all through my mom bones. I continued to cry and cry for days. My friend told me she cried for a week.

🗨️I had moms telling me:
😶I still haven’t adjusted.
😇It gets easier.
🎯This is what they are supposed to do.
🦅Healthy birds fly the nest.
🪽You gave him wings to fly.
👍You are a good mom.
🆗How you feel is so normal.

😌It is amazing how much better I always feel when people tell me that how I feel is totally normal.

🍂When people normalize something, it takes the air out of it. It makes it feel ok to just be sad.

📲Join me live tonight at 9PM as I share what’s helping me shift my focus from sadness to celebration, and how we can give ourselves permission to feel it all and still be okay.

Laughing, Loving, Learning,
Rebecca Greene, LCSW-R

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