by Lisa McCrohan | Oct 22, 2015 | Uncategorized
Come Closer What if one day you let the sadness, the grief stuck under your ribs, the regret lodged in your throat, the shame still folding down the corners of those precious lips to come closer to not push them away or angrily shake your finger scolding them for...
by Lisa McCrohan | Sep 4, 2015 | Cultivating Compassion, Parenting with Compassion, Serving, Healing and Transforming Our World
Over the past week, I have had hundreds of thousands of people reading and sharing this message of “being an includer” on one of my blog posts. So much so that my server couldn’t handle all the traffic. I had hundreds of emails and many comments on...
by Lisa McCrohan | Aug 30, 2015 | Mindful Motherhood, Soulful Poetry
The other day, my youngest child started kindergarten. I woke up that morning feeling anxious. I asked myself, “Did I love enough?” Searching for affirmation that I had done an ok job over the last nine years of parenting my two children, I noticed that I was...
by Lisa McCrohan | Aug 25, 2015 | Mindful Motherhood, Parenting with Compassion
“In an especially chaotic rush out the door to go on a family vacation, I sat in the passenger seat fuming. Mad because I didn’t have time to put the dishes in the dishwasher. Mad because we were late getting on the road. Mad because the garage door was acting up. I...
by Lisa McCrohan | Aug 21, 2015 | Cultivating Compassion, Parenting with Compassion
A year ago, I asked our guidance counselor at our school, Deb, what she thought were the most important messages our boys needed to hear. At that time, I was sitting with the kinds of messages that we send our boys. I wanted to create a wrist wrap with those...