Your Word is Your Wand!

How do we identify what we believe is harmful to us? We know that anything driving us negatively, causing us unhappy stresses and exhaustion feels harmful. If we just listen to the descriptive language coming out of our mouths daily, we will quickly begin to learn what decisions we've made about "how we believe it has to be." Accessing your power means first looking at the problem area, the good the bad and the ugly, and then ... Full Update

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Compassionate Communication: Begin with Kindness

By choosing to feel our own vulnerability, we can then accommodate the vulnerability of another. When you reach for kindness, compassion follows. You can re-wire your impulses. Research about the brain reveals that compassionate thoughts literally light up the frontal lobe of a person's brain. When we are resentful or angry, there is no light in that part of the brain. As soon as we deliberately reach for kindness this part of the brain lights up, and we can literally go from... Full Article

How Powerful is Attention?

The real power of compassionate attention is that it causes positive behavioral change - instanntaneously. You can make a difference in how well children do, both a home and in the classroom, by the kind of attention you decide to give them. If you don't like a child, you will not be able to work with that child successfully. You are either contaminating or contributing to an outcome based on ... Full Article

Be Willing to Be Willing

What I've found to be miraculous about this time-tested strategy is that, once you write down everything you "think you know" about what you are going to "have to do" or "give up," and when you can become willing on each and every item on your list, you will begin to see things unfold in ways you never expected. The most interesting thing of all, at least in my experience, is that I have never once had to do everything on the list that I "thought" I would have to do or give up ...  Full Article

Speak to Us of Children Movie

This week I received an email saying: Death in the Family. My cousin's son died of a self inflicted gunshot wound. This kind of grief is deep and is a reminder to us all to make the time to learn new ways of succeeding with each other so these devastating losses just do not need to happen in our families. I held Gibran's insights on children close to me as I raised my children, remembering when to reach and teach, and when to let go and let them grow ... Click Here to Enjoy Movie

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