Elizabeth Laura Nelson

Is it hard for you to accept help when you need it?

My anxiety doesn’t mean I can’t be a good parent. In fact, it makes me a better one.

This isn’t Sleeping Beauty. There’s no prince coming to rescue you. What relationship beliefs are standing in your way?

We’ve probably all heard it a million times: relationships are hard work.

Go ahead. Give in to the misery.

How do you deal with feeling lonely; are you okay with having alone time?

Does chronic anxiety ever make you feel like a flake?

As a person who writes about relationships for a living, I might be one of the people least in need of all this well-meaning advice, which usually amounts to clichés and can even veer into the territory of outright insults. What I need – what most of us need – is for people to hear me, and to trust me.

Are you drowning in negativity?

Parents — we’re the worst.