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We Shape Our Lives by How We Live Them
I can make a difference in my outer world most easily by tending to my inner world. When I feel better, my life feels better, and then the world around me feels better too.
Good Enough and Just in Time – Self Compassion for Parents
When the inner critic gets out of hand, the sense that something’s wrong with your parenting can be crippling. But inside of you and your children an undamaged presence shines like the sun, and the clouds that sometimes cover it are only temporary.
Breathe Yourself Home
Anxiety and overwhelm feel horrible. And a scattered, dis-regulated nervous system affects EVERYTHING, especially our relationships. Breathing can help. In this post I share how paying attention to your breath can help you calm your nervous system, bring you back to yourself, and even help ease the sense that there is never enough time.
Emotional Regulation: 3 Simple Practices for Peace This Holiday Season
In the culture and times that most of us are finding ourselves in right now, this is the most counter-intuitive work there is — and by far the most needed.
Anxiety and Overwhelm: is This What’s Triggering Them?
The Inner Critic is here to stay. But it doesn’t have to be a source of anxiety and overwhelm. Here are 4 steps for making it your ally.
5 Questions to Help You Learn From Last Year and Make the Most of This Year
Examine and learn from the year gone by, to make your New Year resolutions far more effective. Or use this process during any kind of ending and new beginning.
Difficult Emotions are Allies in Disguise
Where those difficult emotions might be coming from, what might be amplifying them, and why it’s important to be gentle with yourself when they show up.
Out-Growing Consumerism 5: What We Must Do
Self-determination is the ability to re-parent ourselves: to learn new ways of being that make it easier for us to out-grow consumerism and all the forms of separation and alienation from each other and from nature that have befallen us.
Out-Growing Consumerism 4: School, Screens, and Our Kids
What too many children learn at school is not to take risks and not trust their own thinking. When digital data-harvesting enters the mix, it becomes the perfect recipe for producing compliant consumers.