Dealing with Loss and When Kids Become the Parents

February 14, 2014

My grandmother has Alzheimer’s. If you know, then you know. And if you don’t know, I hope you never know.

She has not been herself for years, but in the past few months it’s gotten more serious. She doesn’t know who I am anymore when I come to visit, and she doesn’t know who I am in the photos of me…

Magda Pecsenye the founder of AskMoxie.org, has an unusual combination of empathy and analytic skills that lets her help people troubleshoot their issues in ways that are meaningful. She specializes in helping people take apart their problems and put them back together in a way that feels good so they can figure out what to do in a way that honors who they are.

She was a married SAHM, then a married freelance mom, then a divorcing WOHM, then a divorced WOHM. She also writes a blog about co-parenting with ex-husband, Doug French. Their two boys were born in 2002 and 2005, and the divorce was final in 2008. They lived in NYC for 15 years, but moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan in 2011 and now live four blocks from each other.

Find her at AskMoxie.org.