Tag: family
10 Ways To Nourish Your Child’s Identity Exploration and Free Spirit
Try these tips throughout your week to connect with your family. Let us know how they help you to feel more love, independence and freedom in your relationships.
Things I Selfishly Wish My Daughter Taught Me Sooner
One great thing about having kids is having someone I love who loves me back, depends on me, and turns to me for advice. Lately, I’ve noticed that my daughter is growing up so fast.
Kinda, Sorta, Sometimes Mom
I’m not a mom. Well, I haven’t grown or birthed any babies. I haven’t adopted or fostered any children. I don’t plan to have biological children. I’ve thought about fostering but I’m not in a place to do so right now.
We Are Grateful
How do we find gratitude in such a desolate landscape? We open our eyes and see all that you still are, and not that which has been taken from you.
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The Path of Least Resistance: From Chaos to Acceptance
Are addicts, or addictive personalities, born from nature or nurture? Whichever pie graph you choose, mine reads 100%. Chaos, fighting, unpredictability, poverty, drugs, and alcoholism were the highlights…
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Friends Fill In the Rough Spots
In addition to the desire to invest in my existing relationships, I now had an opportunity to form new relationships, meet new friends, new colleagues, and engage with them in curious mutual interest. I […]
Nurture Yourself Toward Change
“Love is always unconditional in the sense that it is not stymied or stifled by any of the conditions of existence. Neither changes, endings, altered plans, unfairness, suffering, disloyalty, or lack of love…”
Touching Forgiveness: A Day of Mindfulness with My Dad
Located near the Catskills, there lies a special place that opens its doors to visitors who would like to come and participate in something called “a day of mindfulness.” It is as simple as it sounds […]
Your Family is a Work of Art
The other day I was sitting in a dark closet (as I do when playing hide-and-seek with my kids) when I had a realization. It changed the way I think about myself as a parent, as well as what it means to be creative. In my life before parenthood, I associated the term “creativity” with the arts. Painting […]
7 Non-Tech Ways to Reconnect
In a society so technologically advanced, it is so easy to find and connect with someone. Whether we’re liking something on facebook, tweeting our latest thoughts, pinning something interesting…Read More »
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Life After Death: My Marriage, Separation, and Healing
The end of a marriage is very much like a death. I have experienced the death of people close to my heart, so I do not say that lightly. There are the stages of grief that one passes through. Many of us […]
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The Gift
The Autism world is a special and unique world that defies your sense of normal. Children on the Autism spectrum look normal. They are beautiful, have no external physical deformities, but often their behavior is so odd that they are socially challenged and can have trouble engaging on any level of normalcy.
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