“We aren’t always our best selves, but when we know better we can do better.” With three girls in my house ages seven through thirteen, you can imagine the number of living examples I get to observe of the topics I’ve studied like girl aggression, the female brain, the developmental […]
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When Words Don’t Get Through…. Your hand touches her shoulder and you can feel the reaction. First a stiffening, and then a relaxation. Just hang in there. The largest organ in your body is covered with touch receptors designed to feed information to the brain about what is going on […]
And then she becomes Nine…. Daughters grow up fast. At first they are those adorable, wrap you around your pinkie sweethearts. By four, they have a personality and the language to use it. As they round the corner on six and seven, that personality requires a little reigning in to keep them out of trouble. Those sassy words that used to be cute are now kind of offensive. I […]
This time it was the traumatic experience of misplacing a sliced up kiwi that sent my ten-year old in to a flurry of emotion. Everything was bad because of that kiwi, I had no idea that a kiwi could be so powerful – did you? I remember having those big […]
I don’t believe in balance. Well I believe that we need to be more careful when we talk about life balance. As a society, we perpetuate the idea that the desired state of being is one of balance. While this is may be true in a holistic, generic […]
The other day, I was wrapping up a workshop and one of the mother’s shared her story with me. As we offered each other support in the challenges that come from raising children, the sentiments that so many of us feel whispered out of this mom’s mouth, “I […]