Do you ever feel like giving up? Running away, disappearing, just giving it all up in your parenting. Well, if you do, it’s OK. It’s important to see this desire as a messenger not a destroyer. If you hear yourself saying, “I can’t do this...
Deeply listening to our children can be extremely challenging. While your child is sharing something, are you thinking about what you want to tell them or how they need to be? I am. Example: My daughter is venting about someone in our neighborhood. She’ll be...
In my last post we talked about parenting ‘in the moment’. Maybe you’ve had time to practice? How did that go? If you had resistance to this concept that is really natural. I noticed my resistance came from my mind. All these stories came up every time I had this...
Such a wonderful concept and when it came right down to it almost impossible. My mind was always in the past or the future. I would see my daughter and focus on a memory, such as her being so demanding. Or I would fantasize about the future, about who and how and what...
For a good part of my life, I believed I didn’t have the support I needed in order to walk through the difficulties of life. Life should be easier, because it all felt like too much. Things were coming at me faster than I could handle. It had to STOP. In childhood I...
I find it challenging to make contact with the vulnerable parts of myself. There are parts that are so tender, it’s easier to keep them hidden, and to appear judgmental and angry instead of revealing them. In doing so, I cut off from my true nature, which is love. ...
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