Imagine this. Your toddler is having a meltdown in the grocery store. Your own heartbeat speeds up and your breathing becomes shallow in a nanosecond. You feel your child’s distress and your own. This is where we hit the “pause” button and imagine something different (and you can try it right now). You take several Read More
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The Myth of Balance
“The key to keeping your balance is knowing when you’ve lost it”. Anonymous “Can parents have it all?” There is a lot of talk going on in the media, again, about the balance between work and family. Does your life feel out of balance? You’re not alone. In fact, most parents feel out of balance. Read More
The Yoga of Parenting Turns One: What’s Next?
The Four-fold Way: Show up, Pay attention, Speak your truth, Let go of the outcome –Angeles Arrien I am celebrating the first birthday of The Yoga of Parenting by reflecting on what I learned this first year and what is coming next. It reminds me of my son’s first birthday. We decided to have a big birthday bash (bad Read More
Peace: Ending The Mommy Wars Within
A new round of debates about motherhood and feminism have been spawned by the book, “Conflict”, by Badinter. In The Eternal Internal Mommy Wars, Dell’Antonia describes the debates as an expression of the constant war within mothers (and now more frequently within fathers) between satisfying their own needs and those of their child. This dichotomy Read More