acceptance

What if, Right Now, You Thought You Were A Good Enough Mother?

I don’t know about you, but I woke up this morning feeling as if the start-gate to the race had opened, all the other competitors were off down the racetrack, and somehow I had missed it. I felt so much pressure to catch up. But, to what? What was I believing I needed to accomplish Read More

MINDFUL MOMMA, NOT SO MUCH TODAY.

We’ve all had that kind of day. We forgot to be mindful. We forgot to be compassionate, and maybe we forgot to be kind, especially to ourselves. Stacey, a mom I work with, told me about having a day of mindfulness lost not long ago. She went to the grocery store at the end of Read More

Mothers Day: How To Find More Peace Within

Julia Ward Howe wrote the “Mother’s Day Proclamation” in 1870. She asked for women to come together in counsel in “the great and general interest of Peace.” This great and general interest of Peace includes feeling at peace with ourselves, and many of us are still working on that. We may struggle with a deep Read More

Connection–The Key To Happiness

A Great Need “Out of a great need we are all holding hands, And climbing. Not loving is a letting go. Listen, the terrain around here is far too dangerous for that.” Poet Hafiz This summer has been a hard one for me and for my family. When I am sad, I isolate. And this Read More