by Lisa McCrohan | Feb 13, 2015 | Mindfulness in Everyday Life
Love heals. We tend to over-complicate it — looking for complex solutions to our suffering, heartaches, and worries. We can busy ourselves with looking for solutions outside of ourselves, when, really, we can turn inward to our own hearts and bring loving...
by Lisa McCrohan | Jan 26, 2015 | Living Your Spirituality in Everyday Life, Mindfulness in Everyday Life, Parenting with Compassion
“Briaaaaaaaan,” I found myself saying the other day. My tone was filled with frustration over something I don’t even remember right now. That evening, I went to sleep angry. The next morning, I woke up before everyone. In the quiet darkness of...
by Lisa McCrohan | Jan 12, 2015 | Cultivating Compassion, Living Your Spirituality in Everyday Life, Soulful Poetry
Come Closer By Lisa McCrohan 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...
by Lisa McCrohan | Jan 5, 2015 | Soulful Poetry
It’s Time to Come Inside God won’t let me go looking for love outside myself. “It’s time to come inside,” she said. “It’s time to put your hand to your own cheek and stroke your face with the gentleness of a mother nursing her child. No, I...
by Lisa McCrohan | Jan 5, 2015 | Mindfulness in Everyday Life, Soulful Poetry
Today, the kiddos are heading back to school. Maybe you are thrilled, maybe you feel sad, maybe you are breathing in the spaciousness, maybe you are feeling the familiar “rush to get out the door.” Maybe you don’t know what you feel but you’ve...