Let’s talk about the true meaning of kindness. For years, I thought kindness meant “being nice” and yet I discovered it went much deeper than this. I only wanted to “be nice” to certain behaviors that I perceived were appropriate. Once I saw it wasn’t about behavior...
One of my favorite parts of spring is buying flowers to spread throughout my yard. I live in CO where it can get quite hot quite fast and left a flat on my porch planning to plant them the next day. On my morning walk as I approached the porch I noticed how droopy...
Ever wake up feeling fine and the minute you walk into your child’s room, and they are in a bad mood you get stressed? You caught the “feelings” hot potato. YIKES. I’m sure you’ve heard about attunement and how vital this is to healthy attachment, yes? Of course, in...
As parents, we are expected to know what is best for our children. We are cast into this omnipotent role of the “all knower” and we often take this position on and forget we may not always know what is best. I began to see how I knew what was best from my...
Are you afraid to ask for what you want? As a child when you asked were you told you wanted too much or your parent expected you not to ask because they didn’t want to set their personal boundary? I learned to NOT ASK which meant I became self-reliant and...
Last week we talked about how to turn inside to attend to what is arising in us when our children are fighting. Once we are able to separate out enough from our emotional trigger and step back into our adult role we can offer our children some ways to work with what...
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