How can you tell if it’s time to let go of a goal? Can you “convince” your partner to make internally-driven goals instead of focusing “out there”? (Short answer: No.) How can you talk to kids about using their feelings as guidance? What should be the primary driver of your plans for 2013? In our
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Eventually, you have to stop blaming your parents. Nurture nature. Hard done by, won by. Inherited, genetic, prophetic, pathetic. Too big, too little, too flat, too tight. Domineered, engineered, relegated, antiquated. Abandoned. Held too tight taking flight. A shrink friend of mine said the most common pattern he saw in human behavior was that people
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View the segment: STOP DOING Lists … Mark Kelley and I talk it up this week.
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I’ve got a new column on Mothering.com, called: Very Big Love: For Seekers, Mamas, and Mavens This week’s article: Mindful Speech and Supreme Kid-Respect It’s such an honour to be involved in anything that Peggy O’Mara does – she an icon of conscious birth and natural families. And get this – Mothering.com has the #1
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{If you’re viewing this via email, click on the title above to watch the video clip.} Emotion and passion trumps all: technique, pretense, ego. This dance translates the fight to live, and the essence of real partnership. The response from the first judge, Nigel, is particularly profound in terms of creativity and courage. Get your
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mother’s day when you were born my days were suddenly full of trees and apples of hope and the machinations of terror I conceived of space my world became the size of a seed pointed and round no intruders a harvest of possibility only sorrow that I could imagine my world became a growing diamond
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How would you feel if, when you first met someone new, they said to you, “Are you going to play shy?” or “Looks like someone’s in a bad mood.” Grown-ups say the darnedest things… READ MY FULL ARTICLE ON SIMPLEMOM.NET – ONE OF MAY FAVOURITE SMART PARENTING SITES.
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