Daughters of the world need to know they are loved and to feel heard. It’s hard to do this in such a fast-paced world. A day dedicated to spending time and sharing with your daughter is a great way to grow that connection.
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When hosted in the Unique setting of Ignite Associates, weather permitting, you’ll get to spend time exploring nature together in an activity that provides conversation starters aimed at growing that mother-daughter bond. When hosted in other cities, Girls Changing the World includes a session with a teacher from the wellness […]
As a mother-daughter team, you’ll learn ways you can help each other take control of those big emotions, whether expressed or repressed, and live happier and more confident lives. Practicing conversations during the workshop opens up the gate for future conversations. These conversations are needed to help girls find happiness and […]
Both you and your daughter learn where feelings come from and how our minds react in different situations. Having a shared understanding means you can build on the conversations for years to come! Learn some easy mindfulness concepts that you can take with you for those times when your household could use […]
“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 […]
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 […]