The number one trauma parents want to prevent: child sexual abuse
We're going to talk about something hard today: preventing child sexual abuse. I lived in Boston at the time when the first child sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic church broke and became...
It’s time for beauty, honor, and integrity
It's Time for Beauty When your heart is heavy, when your eyes are tired, when you’ve been working too much and too hard, when your anxiety runs high, when you’ve read about yet another cruelty...
I was that new kid sitting alone at the lunch table
Part 2 of 2: I was that new kid sitting alone at the lunch table. I shared part 1 of the story here. I thought I was the “only one,” but it turns out that this story resonated with millions of...
The impact of teachers who regard their students
The impact of teachers who regard their students is felt way beyond one school year. Just walking into Mr. Erard’s upper elementary Montessori class as a parent, you could tell there was something...
What children really need when they face challenges
What children really need when they face challenges isn’t for us to save them, but rather this… “Mom,” my eight year old daughter called down to me, “I’m stuck.” She was standing above me on a small...
How to set the compass of your heart…and teach your children, too.
Each day - a new day. A new opportunity to set the compass of your heart. It is so so easy for me to wake up and hit the ground running. Some of it is reality and some of it is self-imposed. I love...
Make America great starting with how we regard the most vulnerable
"Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned...
Self-awareness and Leadership: 7 Skills Every Leader Should Hone
“Self-awareness is the starting point of leadership,” Bill George, professor of leadership at Harvard Business School, former CEO of Medtronic It’s apparent in today’s political climate that...
Summer family kindness to create a more compassionate world
"Mom," my son asked me one day as we were stopped at a light. I looked in the rear view mirror and I saw that he was looking at the homeless man who stood at the island in the middle of the road...
Don’t “keep calm and carry on”
We barely said “hello” and she started to cry. “I’m so sorry,” she said with a shaky voice through her tears, “I usually don’t cry so easily.” “Most people I talk to in coaching and therapy cry at...
Facing mortality, surrendering to grace.
Kissing my mom’s forehead before she went into surgery, not knowing if that would be the last time my lips would feel the warmth of her body, my eyes would see the deep love she has for us in her...
Claim your life as your own: 18 soulful practices to get unstuck and live your joy
I don't remember the exact moment when I decided to stop justifying, explaining, rationalizing, or defending my decisions. But I do remember the myriad situations before when I'd "feel bad" for...
