Letting Your Heart Break Wide Open – little by little
Wide Open Let your heart break. Let it break wide open. You have lost all interest in trying to keep all the pieces together anymore. Your soul wants out. Your soul wants freedom. You have been longing to stop pushing down the lump in your throat. Let your truth be...
Schedule Your Self-Care for 2017
This past year, I did something I hadn’t done before: I scheduled out my self-care for the whole year. I sat back and saw how I would spend money on my children. I would put their regular activities on the schedule. New soccer team with new uniforms and more...
A sacred response to overwhelm and negativity
We were in the middle of Ikea (an hour and a half away from home) when we heard our son broke his thumb. It was Friday and traffic was heavy. We were finally trying to make time for a project in our kitchen to create work space for our children. This project is...
Learning to be embodied and listen from the heart – Lessons from Kauai
Morning in Hawaii Resting here with you, I listen to this moment. Breath, rain, ocean - peace. Lisa McCrohan, © 2016 I stood there on the shore in Kauai, Hawaii, watching the powerful waves crashing onto the shore and then receding back out into the vast ocean. I was...
Connecting Before You Go: A Family Prayer/Meditation Ritual
"I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life." ~Abraham Lincoln This morning we were hustling out the door. We weren't late (bonus!) and we weren't hurrying, but we were moving. I saw my husband come outside in...
Risk living your life based on what is most sacred to you
I hear it. I sense it. Within you. Within me. A fire growing. A wave forming. A revolution of the heart-body-mind-spirit rising. We are done putting our attention (effort, energy, time…our sacred time) into what doesn’t serve us, what doesn’t feel like “right...
Give into the Wildness
There is a holy wildness growing louder within each of us. I hear it in my clients. I hear it pushing against my own ribs. The beginning of September can still be hot here in the D.C. area and, at this point, many of us are tired of it and ready for the cooler...
Walking the rocky path – lessons from hiking in Kauai, Hawaii
It was our last day on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. We had tried to hike up the Sleeping Giant mountain when we first arrived, but the rain started to pour down in buckets. As we looked at the mud running down the path, we knew that the further we climbed up, the...
Love or Hate: It starts closer to home
Hate is taught. Love is our true nature. Awhile ago, my son asked me what “gay” meant. I didn’t know what prompted him asking. I also thought he knew – we have family and friends who are gay. He has met their partners before. But I decided to answer his question. So I...
Radical Regard…for Yourself – With “MY SACRED SPACE TIME”
In my last two blog posts I offered two questions that support you in honoring YOU. “What will you do this summer (or any season you are in) to honor yourself?” “What Sacred Space do you need in this season of your life?” In Compassion Coaching and Psychotherapy, the...