Archive for February, 2012
Compass – Communication From the Heart
When we are speaking to someone we love and trying to express something that may be difficult for the other person to hear, it can often be challenging to clearly express our message without negative feelings drowning the connection or the subject changing. This month’s compass guides you in expressing your matters of the heart effectively. [...]
Nutrition – Eating Chocolate and Loving Every Bite
This month, we are celebrating love, and when it comes to food, there is no greater love than the love of chocolate. At first, I had planned on writing about discovering love for oneself, one’s body, as is often my way. I wanted to write about both the importance and the challenge of accepting one’s [...]
Psychology – Being a “Good Enough” Parent
Recently, a newly divorced father, Matt, requested information from us about whether it was a good idea for his 18-month-old girl to have overnight visits. He was worried that his daughter spending a night away from the usual home would affect her sense of security. This is a sensitive matter of the heart and [...]
Parenting – A Person and A Place
My two young sons and I were a tight trio, especially after a long and difficult split with their father, and we were ready for an adventure. We left California, drove across the country, and moved into a ramshackle farmhouse deep in the woods of Vermont, three miles up an old logging road, with very [...]
Arts – A Stream of Heart Consciousness
I have found it incredibly helpful as an artist, as a truth seeker, and as an evolving and expanding being, to really listen to my heart. I’m continually learning and relearning the importance of trusting the vision and the process, whether it be art or some other aspect of my life. We all have our own personal [...]
Parenting – Parenting Relationships: The Love Contract
There is a lesson I learned from a relationship many years ago that has stuck with me ever since… I regard this lesson as a contract between my partner and myself. The contract states that neither of us would ever consciously “come after” each other, which means that neither of us will EVER do or [...]
Education – Matters of the Heart in Parent Conferences
Ricardo, in 4th grade, already looked like he could be a linebacker for the San Francisco 49ers, but he had the heart and needs of a 10-year-old boy. Ricardo was intelligent; however, he lacked motivation. He could have been my class screw-up or my class leader. It was my job to have him recognize his [...]
Cause – Why Juvenile Justice is a Matter of my Heart
An adolescent in jail develops a keen awareness of her life as her passage to success narrows with each day spent in her stagnant cell. Jail successfully opened her eyes to the severity of her actions and made her desperate for change, but jail was also simultaneously making the path to change treacherous. It was [...]
