by Lisa McCrohan | Dec 31, 2014 | Mindfulness in Everyday Life
For the past several years, I’ve chosen a word for the year. Some years it has been a few words or a phrase. Other years, just one word. Out of a quiet moment of journaling and meditation, a word comes across my heart and it feels like, “Yes, this is my word for the...
by Lisa McCrohan | Dec 15, 2014 | Mindfulness in Everyday Life, Parenting with Compassion
Every December, as the days get “shorter,” I am so very aware of lighting…the sun setting by 5 p.m., the lighting in our home, the holiday lights. It’s known about me that I never like to use the overhead lights and instead prefer the soft...
by Lisa McCrohan | Dec 13, 2014 | Cultivating Compassion, Mindful Motherhood, Parenting with Compassion
Recently, a woman wrote to me and said that she wanted to send one of my poetic wrist wraps to a young girl who has cancer. “Which one do you suggest, Lisa?” She asked. “Hmmm….tell me about her,” I wrote back. Often people come to me...
by Lisa McCrohan | Dec 6, 2014 | Nourishing Our Connections, Parenting with Compassion
Yesterday, I went to a new salon to get my haircut. As I was sitting in the chair and *Tracy was already getting to work on a shorter, cute cut for me, she started to asked me questions – what do you do, how do you know the person who referred you, how many children...
by Lisa McCrohan | Dec 4, 2014 | Soulful Poetry
In the Space of Dying Lisa A. McCrohan You are an ordinary shrub losing its leaves for the winter in a suburban yard that I’ve walked by hundreds – perhaps now thousands – of times. And yet today, I pause in front of you noticing I’m in the space of dying. Leaves...