Gratitude is more than folded hands and bowed head at a table laden with abundance. It is a heartfelt overwhelm that grabs us and hugs us tight until we want to cry from the joy of it. Gratitude is more than dropping a dollar or two into the Salvation Army bucket. It’s our heart saying…
The holiday season is here, which means spending time with family members whom we may not see all the time. Because of the political environment in our country right now, these time of togetherness can result in more rifts than ever before. Therefore, when we gather with family over the holidays, how do we…
Episodes of gratitude erupt spontaneously from somewhere beneath my doing and thinking. They ooze through whatever crack they find – manifesting as a ray of softness, a swelling of thanks, a depth of Silence expanding and encompassing all of what my eyes see, my ears hear, my hands touch. Warmth in my heart fills…
There must have been at least five mother-daughter pairs among the 30 women who attended the Possibility of Woman workshop in Sedona. I watched Dr. Carol McCall, a Master Coach and the creator of the workshop, support these mothers and daughters to become clean and clear in their relationships with one another. Clean and…
When my three sons were young, my life felt like a tornado. Every day, a whirlwind of activity engulfed me from morning to night. I felt exhausted much of the time, and the phrase “time for me” didn’t exist in my vocabulary. As young girls, many of us women internalized the societal message that…
When I first began raising my children, I determined to do a better job at parenting than my parents had done with me. So I attended a class called “Systematic Training for Effective Parenting” (STEP, by Dinkmeyer and McKay). I learned how to do something there that neither my mother nor my father had…
Well, we’ve done our job! We’ve raised our children and they are now adults who perhaps have children of their own. As we and our children grow older, patterns of communication from way back can hang around and undermine our adult-to-adult relationship with our kids. In our worst moments, we can find ourselves communicating…
If you are a teenager reading this, I’m going to let you in on a little secret about your parents. This is something they don’t want you to know. In fact, if they read this first, they may hide this blog from you! Before I tell you the secret, let me say the psychology…
Raising spiritually aware children can feel confusing, so let me put you at ease. It isn’t your responsibility. It belongs to the Universe. You may be the most spiritually unaware parent or grandparent on the planet and, through no fault of your own, still end up raising a spiritually aware person (the converse also…
Many years ago, I held my 3-week old son, Ethan, on my lap, with my hands under his head. As I gazed into his eyes, the depth of silence and radiance I saw there took my breath away. As Ethan gazed back at me, I experienced being seen by Truth itself — by…