Posted in Joy Based Parenting, Parenting Advice, Single Parenting, Struggling Teen on Sep 8th, 2009
Today, I am feeling the tenderist place in my heart. As I open to this exquisite place, my heart breaks open to an even deeper place with my daughter. Often, when I’m busy and trying so hard to ‘keep it together” as a mom, I notice that my heart closes. Even though I can still [...]
Posted in Parenting Advice, Struggling Teen on Aug 19th, 2009
When my heart is open I reach out! When my heart is closed I shut out! I’m the one who opens and closes the door, no one else has the key!
Posted in Parenting Advice, Struggling Teen on Aug 13th, 2009
Lately, I’ve experience a lot of turbulence due to my circular thinking. When I perceive something from the external, thwarting my need to be seen and heard, I experience a lot of turbulent stirrings in my body which triggers many turbulent thoughts. My mind goes round and round trying to make sense of it all. [...]
Posted in Parenting Advice, Struggling Teen on Jul 24th, 2009
When our children are experiencing intense emotional states they can often trigger us and before we know it our anchor of calm and connection has been ripped out of the ocean. When this happens we begin riding the same intense wave as our child and in our panic look to them to help us. We [...]
Posted in Love-Based Parenting, Parenting Advice, Single Parenting, Struggling Teen on Jul 23rd, 2009
Being a single parent, I get overwhelmed with all the things my daughter leaves around the house. I am always picking up something that shouldn’t be there. One of my biggest irritants are those long clear, tube popcicle wrappers. Of course, I buy boxes of them in the summer and leave them in the freezer [...]
Posted in Love-Based Parenting, Parenting Advice, Single Parenting, Struggling Teen on Jun 30th, 2009
Being a single parent, I move into overwhelm when I have too much on my plate. Trying to make sure that everything gets done, often doesn’t leave a lot of down time to take care of me. Unfortunately, when I am overwhelmed, my daughter, joins right in. She can’t keep her equalibrium when I [...]
Posted in Parenting Advice, Single Parenting, Struggling Teen on Jun 25th, 2009
What we focus on is what we will see. When I find myself focusing on all the things my daughter is doing that I judge as negative, I often find even more. When I’m tired and down on myself, I can walk in the house and within 2 minutes see everything that she hasn’t put [...]
Posted in Love-Based Parenting, Parenting Advice, Struggling Teen on Jun 21st, 2009
Usually when I work with a family that has a struggling teen, I begin the work with the parents struggle. So often we want to “fix” our teen because we think they are the problem. We assume since they have brought so much discomfort to us, and the family, that if only we could have [...]
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