A moment. With my phone no less, which according to research shared by doreen dodgen-magee on the podcast, “can stimulate the release of oxytocin (’the cuddle hormone’), thus initiating feelings similar to love… Our physiological responses to devices suggest an emotional connection to them not unlike what we experience as physiological responses to connections between […]
Arriving requires acknowledgment doesn’t it? Wherever it is we are arriving. Be it a physical place or emotional place or mental place. Breathing grounds the arrival in our bodies. Here’s to noticing where we’ve arrived today, in this moment. I’m acknowledging arriving deeply rooted (and roots deepening by the day) into the school season, with time […]
Proof that I was in #Austin. Did anything give it away? Pictures easily evoke emotions, as we know, and for me anyway, serve as a reminder, as an invitation to recall and revisit and reclaim pieces and parts of myself. At this point on my trip to Mom 2.0. I had finally let go and opened […]
Going with the flow, a meditation from the full podcast on Going With The Flow, when things don’t always feel so fluid. From host and producer, Julie Cusmariu, based in Montreal, Canada. Listen to the meditation here.
“With Irene it was never about what was lost. It was about what remained. “ Michelle Memran, director of the award-winning documentary film ‘The Rest I Make Up’. The Rest I Make Up distills fifteen years of connection between the filmmaker Michelle Memran and the playwright María Irene Fornés into an emotionally raw jaunt […]
When I first met Dr. Gordon Neufeld in person in the fall of 2017, after I had the opportunity to interview him on video, and then get his autograph on my copy of the book “Hold On To Your Kids”, I said to him with gratitude “ Your insight into parenting has restored my confidence […]
