The Power of Compassion: The Mountain that Loved a Bird
When challenging emotions are held with connection and love, our hearts and lives can be transformed in positive ways. There is a children’s story that beautifully illustrates the healing power of compassion: The Mountain that Loved a Bird. The play will open your heart…
Four Steps to Help Kids Grow Self-Compassion
How do we help children (and ourselves) develop the life-enhancing resource of self-compassion? The process of helping children grow self-compassion can be divided into four simple steps: 1) Learn the skill of self-compassion either on your own or alongside your child. 2) Model…
What if I Were Grandma
Like many parents, I often function in a sort of survival or efficiency mode. Recently, I’ve begun to ask myself the question: What if I were grandma?
She’s Going to be Okay
My ten year-old came home from her first field hockey practice with some news that touched my heart. She said that the first half of practice she had been practicing self-criticism and comparing herself to others, but then the second half of practice, she remembered self-compassion, and she began to repeat the kind wishes that we’ve been practicing…
The Path to Resilience Journaling Challenge
I am formally inviting you (yes you!) on a Path to Resilience Journaling adventure. I am sharing our first week of the Path to Resilience journaling blog with everyone. If you would like to receive journaling prompts for future weeks (it is a sixty-day challenge),...
Resilience Toolkit
A friend of mine recently sent me an article from the New York Times entitled, Is Resilience Overrated? As I read the article, I reflected on the many ways that people define resilience. I looked up the word resilience and found this definition: “the capacity to...