Excerpt from 21 Days of Parenting Mindfully: Your Guide to Raising a Conscious Child by Lorrie Jones, p. 108 When we become parents, we bring issues from our past that will influence the way we guide and parent our child. Experiences that have not been fully dealt with or that remain in our memory, on some level, determine to a large extent our behavior
Continue reading » Your Childhood Experiences Impact How You Parent Today
I am thrilled to share some exciting news with you: I have THREE NEW BOOKS available now on Amazon: 21 Days of Living Mindfully, 21 Days of Parenting Mindfully, and 21 Days of Eating Mindfully (3rd ed with new sections and updated information)! As you make your way through the guidebooks, you are invited to record your daily thoughts, reflections, and
Continue reading » Exciting News: I Have Three NEW Books Out!
This post is part of the Empowering the Goddess Within Blog Tour hosted by BraveHealer.com! To read more entries and potentially win a fun prize, visit the tour page HERE, between September 9th and September 19th! They say that when an untrusting horse, after much despair and distress, finally feels safe with a human being, the moment is called “joining
Continue reading » The Jean Whisperer
"Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry." —Lyman Abbott I was 5 years old standing in line for recess. My coat was on, scarf and mittens in place. Suddenly my body hurled forward from the momentum of a tremendous shove from behind. As I crashed into a table and chair, I was momentarily stunned with shock What just happened?
Continue reading » Kindergarten Bully
Mindfulness is a practice individuals and groups can do on a day-to-day basis. It can enable people to change the way they think and feel about their experiences, especially stressful experiences. As a mind-body approach, it can increase one's ability to manage difficult situations and make wise choices. A growing body of evidence has found that when
Continue reading » Case Study: A Mindfulness Based Approach to Stress Reduction
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; ... who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at
Continue reading » Review: Daring Greatly by Dr. Brené Brown
Sometimes we forget about ourselves, taking care of our own needs last, if at all. Isn't it time you committed to your health and self-care? A great place to start is to ask yourself the following key questions:
Continue reading » Self-Care: Questions to Ask Before Giving Up
And how to stop doing that. You might not think you have a morning ritual, but you do. "I didn't get enough sleep." + "I don't have enough time." According to Lynne Twist, author of The Soul of Money, we unwittingly think those two scarcity-themed thoughts every single day, before we do or think about anything else: "Before we even sit up in bed,
Continue reading » Two Toxic Thoughts You Accidentally Think Every Day
I dug excitedly into the soil, carefully dropping two tomato starts into the holes. I gently covered the roots, watered, and clapped my hands in glee. I knew I’d soon have gorgeous, plump, juicy red tomatoes, just like my dear friend Jane’s. I did everything I was supposed to...I thought. Although I watered faithfully, it wasn’t long before I realized the
Continue reading » My Big Red Tomato, Not!
I quietly tiptoed out of my grandparents home, dawn’s light just breaking. Green grass still damp with dew, I stopped to listen to beautiful birdsong before continuing my pilgrimage across the lawn. My destination, an old metal faucet that dripped little by little. I dipped my toes in the mud, feeling the squish of cool, slippery earth. Every morning, I
Continue reading » Toes in the Mud
