This week we are talking about the inner workings of the mom-guilt cycle. It’s building on the last few blog topics so let’s review! First, you have a big desire for cooperation from the kiddos- and yet you are not sure how that looks so use your young strategies to...
Picking up where we left off last time- powerlessness. For me, it often comes up when I just can’t get what I want, which is usually some kind of cooperation- then the powerlessness I feel inside triggers rage, and that’s when I behave in ways that don’t...
I meet other parents in the Purejoy space, and I notice we are all at different points on the same journey. I see so many previous versions of myself, lots of parenting moments, where I noticed what wasn’t working, and tried a new practice, a new perception. Over...
Healthy Aggression? You are asking? I know there was a time that I sure was!?! How could aggression be anything other than horrible, wrong, bad? I asked Leslie in a session one summer afternoon after my son punched the neighbor kid. When it happened I was immediately...
Growing up in your home you took on a certain view…often it was your caregiver’s view of the world. Since you were young you saw the world the way your caregivers did. Even though as you grew your view changed and often times was counter to your caregivers, when...
When my daughter started behaving in ways I didn’t think she should I was flummoxed. I thought inside “I’m treating her well and meeting all her needs on-demand so what am I doing wrong?” She was acting defiant and expressing a lot of rage and this wasn’t part of my...
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