Grow Up Your Inner Child

Grow Up Your Inner Child

Growing up isn’t always easy. Some days, I find myself wishing that the world would rearrange itself to nurture me. To embrace me. To care for me. Those days, when I’m feeling “little,” I also tend to be more fearful. More fragile. More...

Navigating Needs and Triggers

My daughter graduates from high school in six weeks.Even as I type this sentence, I find myself pausing to let that sink in fully. Conflicted feelings flood my awareness: sadness, delight, loss, excitement, fear, and deep, deep love. It’s a complicated moment for...
Nurturing Compassion

Nurturing Compassion

The way we are spoken to as children becomes the way we speak to ourselves and others as adults, but as we become more aware of how we both think and speak habitually, we also develop more choice and creativity about who we want to be today.  When we soften our heated...

Beneficial Regret

My last few weeks have been filled with volatility of many kinds – mostly relational. As a parent of a 17 year-old, I realize that a certain amount of, shall we say, “excitement” at home is par for the course, but adding on a variety of other...