Lisa Sugarman is the author of the Boston Globe Local Bestseller LIFE: It Is What It Is, available on Amazon, at Barnes & Noble.com, at Whole Foods Market, and in select Boston-area bookstores. She also writes the nationally syndicated weekly humor column, It Is What It Is, which appears in over 400 GateHouse Media, Inc., newspapers from coast to coast. A long-time columnist and humorist for GateHouse, as well as a regular contributor at LittleThings.com and MommingHubb. Lisa understands firsthand that life is a work in progress, especially when you’re raising kids. The wife and mother of two daughters lives in her hometown of Marblehead, Massachusetts, a tiny coastal town of twenty thousand people crammed onto a small peninsula just north of Boston. - Debra Fox Gansenberg, MSW, LICSW, is the founder and owner of New Beginnings Counseling Service PC, located around the North Shore of Boston. She has a 25-year history working in the mental health field as a skilled clinical psychotherapist and business owner specializing in individuals, couples, group, and family therapy. Debra has also been the Director of School Services for NBCS for more than 20 years, and she has customized and implemented school-based counseling services for several schools, pre-K through 12th grade. Her case includes a wide variety of patients cultivating their communication skills, learning coping skills, problem solving, and improving the quality of their relationships, as well as travelling through self-exploration. Debra has an eclectic approach to tackling a wide variety of issues that range from depression and anxiety to self-management, self-esteem, and learning differences. Her experience includes clinical therapy, psycho education, public speaking, creating curriculum, business management/business operations, and clinical supervision. She received her counseling degree from S