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Light and Growth – Two Guiding Metaphors

December 9, 2021 by Dasee Berkowitz Leave a Comment

When we make space for Light and Growth in what guides our relationships with our kids, they will feel the difference.

Filed Under: Chanukah, Holidays, Jewish Wisdom, Parenting, The Jewish Year Tagged With: Parenting, parents, soulful parent, Spiritual

A Meditation on Light

December 1, 2021 by Dasee Berkowitz Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Chanukah, Holidays, Jewish Wisdom, Parenting, The Jewish Year Tagged With: chanukah, holidays, Judaism, Parenting, soulful parent, Spiritual

Creating Family Rituals

November 24, 2021 by Dasee Berkowitz Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Holidays, Jewish Wisdom, Parenting Tagged With: Gratitude, Judaism, Parenting, parents, soulful parent, thanksgiving

Toast to a New Tradition

November 17, 2021 by Dasee Berkowitz Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Jewish Wisdom, Parenting Tagged With: connection, Gratitude, Parenting, thanksgiving

Live with More Vitality

November 10, 2021 by Dasee Berkowitz Leave a Comment

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.

Filed Under: Self-Care Tagged With: Pandemic, Parenting, parents, soulful parent, Spiritual, Yoga

What We Can Learn From Difference

November 2, 2021 by Dasee Berkowitz Leave a Comment

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?

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: Judaism, Parenting, parents, soulful parent

Looking to Our Elders

October 27, 2021 by Dasee Berkowitz Leave a Comment

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.

Filed Under: Grandparents Tagged With: Grandparents, Judaism, Parenting, parents, soulful parent, Spiritual

Education and the Long Middle

October 20, 2021 by Dasee Berkowitz Leave a Comment

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.

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: Pandemic, Parenting, parents, soulful parent, Spiritual

Shmita and Release

October 13, 2021 by Dasee Berkowitz Leave a Comment

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.

Filed Under: Jewish Wisdom, Mindfulness, Parenting, The Jewish Year Tagged With: Judaism, Parenting, Shmita, soulful parent, Spiritual

Reconnecting To How We Spend Our Time

October 6, 2021 by Dasee Berkowitz Leave a Comment

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?

Filed Under: Jewish Wisdom, Self-Care Tagged With: soulful parent, Spiritual, Technology

Let it Rain! (in good measure)

September 29, 2021 by Dasee Berkowitz Leave a Comment

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.

Filed Under: Jewish Wisdom, Parenting, The Jewish Year Tagged With: Judaism, Parenting, parents, soulful parent, Spiritual

Sukkot’s Simple Happiness

September 21, 2021 by Dasee Berkowitz Leave a Comment

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?

Filed Under: Holidays, The Jewish Year Tagged With: Judaism, Parenting, parents, soulful parent, Spiritual, Sukkot

Music Can Open Your Heart

September 14, 2021 by Dasee Berkowitz Leave a Comment

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.

Filed Under: Holidays, Jewish Wisdom, Parenting, Yom Kippur Tagged With: connection, Judaism, Music, Parenting, parents, soulful parent, Spiritual

What This Season Can Teach Our Children

September 9, 2021 by Dasee Berkowitz Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Holidays, Jewish Wisdom, Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur Tagged With: holidays, Judaism, parents, soulful parent, Yom Kippur

What’s Your One Thing?

September 1, 2021 by Dasee Berkowitz Leave a Comment

If you were set to think about Your One Thing you would want to work on this year, what would it be?

Filed Under: Jewish Wisdom, Parenting, Rosh Hashana, The Jewish Year Tagged With: holidays, Judaism, Parenting, parents, soulful parent, Spiritual

Savor Summer

August 30, 2021 by Dasee Berkowitz Leave a Comment

“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 […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: Judaism, Pandemic, Parenting, soulful parent

Bring a Becoming Mindset to your Summer

June 30, 2021 by Dasee Berkowitz Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Jewish Wisdom, Parenting Tagged With: Judaism, soulful parent, Spiritual

Rituals for Transition

June 23, 2021 by Dasee Berkowitz Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Jewish Wisdom, Parenting Tagged With: Judaism, Parenting, soulful parent, Spiritual

Cultivating Our Sons’ Emotional Lives

June 16, 2021 by Dasee Berkowitz Leave a Comment

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.

Filed Under: Jewish Wisdom, Parenting Tagged With: Father's Day, Parenting, parents, soulful parent, Spiritual

More Unconditional Love

June 9, 2021 by Dasee Berkowitz Leave a Comment

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.

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: Pandemic, Parenting, parents, soulful parent, Spiritual

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