by Lisa McCrohan | Mar 12, 2012 | Living Your Spirituality in Everyday Life, Mindful Motherhood, Mindfulness in Everyday Life
What if we met any experience, feeling, or thought with total, radical acceptance? What if, instead of pushing away pain and fear, we invited them in? To sit down next to us. To have tea. Or, in my case, sit on the street curb with me. What if we treated them as a...
by Lisa McCrohan | Oct 27, 2011 | Mindful Motherhood, Mindfulness in Everyday Life, Parenting with Compassion
Grapefruit. I started to softly cry over my grapefruit the other morning. Carefully cutting the outside circle of my grapefruit, I stopped. The memory of my mother so lovingly and thoroughly cutting my grapefruit for me as a girl flooded my mind and heart. Back...
by Lisa McCrohan | Oct 13, 2010 | Mindful Motherhood, Soulful Poetry
Enough. Enough playing small, shrugging our shoulders, nervously laughing, casting our eyes down when we’d rather be standing tall, feet firmly planted on the earth, heart and solar plexus reaching up to the sky. Enough belittling ourselves, second guessing ourselves,...
by Lisa McCrohan | Jun 23, 2010 | Mindful Motherhood, Parenting with Compassion
Update from the other day’s blog, What Motivates our Children: Part One: the Popsicle didn’t work. And I felt weird about using food as bait for my kiddo to do something. I knew it just wasn’t right. So I dropped it. Then one day last week we were...