Practical wisdom from the author’s personal experience and psychology training.
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…
I’ll never forget my experience in parenting my resistant son, Ethan, when he was 12 years old. He must have felt especially stubborn that day when he asked me if he could go somewhere with his friend. “Sure, go ahead,” I said, “as soon as you’ve completed your half hour of violin practice.” Ethan…