When we make space for Light and Growth in what guides our relationships with our kids, they will feel the difference.
A Meditation on Light
On the first night of Hanukkah, my husband came home with a placemat that says, Everyone is a Light. In Hebrew it reads, כל אחד הוא אור. The mat is meant […]
Creating Family Rituals
Thanksgiving is upon us. In the spirit of sharing what we are grateful for, I am grateful to you for your thoughtful responses to a survey we put out last […]
Toast to a New Tradition
The therapist, writer, and international speaker, Esther Perel said this about relationships: “The quality of your relationships determines the quality of your life.” At Thanksgiving, for many families, we […]
Live with More Vitality
To move past all of the challenges we have experienced and live ‘as if’ we are on the other side might take a bit of imagination and a good dose of faith. But imagination and faith are made more real by the practices we take on – daily, weekly and monthly.
What We Can Learn From Difference
Did you feel left out sometimes? Did you ever wish that people saw you for who you know you are on the inside instead of what they can see from the outside?
Looking to Our Elders
The nurturing flow goes in both directions. We can look to our elders for guidance and perspective, and share their stories of resilience with our children. In parallel, we can help our elders come into closer contact with our children so that they can be enlivened by them as well.
Education and the Long Middle
While schools can offer an official measure of our children around how they are progressing in acquiring the skills, tools, and competencies to function as citizens of the world, when children struggle at school, our homes can offer an important corrective.
Shmita and Release
And while we may be better versed in Shabbat celebration, that comes as a disruption to the centrality we place on work, and helps us refocus our attention every week on rest and reflection, shmita is a shabbat on a much larger scale.
Reconnecting To How We Spend Our Time
While we all need technology to live, work and function, what happens if we live without it, for a few hours, or a day, or even a year?
Let it Rain! (in good measure)
There is another lesson I am learning from the prayer for rain that we said at the very end of the prayers on Shemini Atzeret at the end of the Jewish holiday cycle. It struck me this year as particularly poignant…Rain should fall.
Sukkot’s Simple Happiness
Have you ever had the experience that you notice something really good happening in your family, like your kids are playing nicely, your child is being particularly helpful, or there is a sense of everything just working. And then the second you bring your consciousness to it and really notice it, or pull out your phone to capture the moment, it’s over?
Music Can Open Your Heart
We need to prepare our hearts sometimes so that we can stand honestly and openly as we examine our lives and the people and parents we are and want to become.
What This Season Can Teach Our Children
Your life is a gift. That is the idea I am carrying around with me during this period of High Holidays. I am inspired by the beautiful responses I received […]
What’s Your One Thing?
If you were set to think about Your One Thing you would want to work on this year, what would it be?
Savor Summer
“When will we ever feel settled?” It’s a question that has been making its way around our home a lot lately. We just moved to a new house a couple […]
Bring a Becoming Mindset to your Summer
I have been swimming for the past 20 years, but I never consider myself a swimmer. To my mind, swimmers are people who were on a swim team when they were […]
Rituals for Transition
While the end of the school year signals the transition to summer, this year it also signals the transition to something deeper – living life ‘in person’ again – or […]
Cultivating Our Sons’ Emotional Lives
With Father’s Day coming up, in addition to celebrating, honoring and elevating the role of the fathers in our lives, I am thinking about how fathers model what it means to be “a man” especially for our sons.
More Unconditional Love
There were so many ups and downs this past year – times when our kids lost it, other times when we lost it. There were times when we might have questioned if they were learning anything at all. Pressure and frustration mounted at times. And now, as we wind down the year, we can think about the learning that is enduring.
