by Lisa McCrohan | Feb 13, 2020 | Cultivating Compassion, Soulful Poetry
Self-Love Maybe you don’t have to do so much, try so hard, expend so much energy trying to keep everything together. Maybe you are carrying too much – much more than is humanly possible. Maybe it’s time to go easy on yourself – to be gentle, to...
by Lisa McCrohan | Jan 29, 2020 | Cultivating Compassion, Serving, Healing and Transforming Our World, Soulful Poetry
There we were – my son, my daughter, my friend, and her daughter – in our ski boots at night on the slope of a mountain searching for my phone. I had dropped it a few hours earlier while skiing. And now it was late, dark, and cold. We were talking to my...
by Lisa McCrohan | Jan 10, 2020 | living with intention and purpose, Soulful Poetry
No Longer Waiting When you are so done with waiting for change just to happen, you finally realize that YOU are the change. Instead of waiting for anyone else to do something differently, instead of playing victim, instead of waiting to be rescued, you decide it’s so...
by Lisa McCrohan | Dec 3, 2019 | Soulful Poetry
Hope When there seems no other way but through the darkness when the light of hope flickers out when you wonder how you will make it through or if you will ever be happy again Please, take my hand. I will lend you my hope. I will bring you flowers and I will empty the...
by Lisa McCrohan | Oct 17, 2019 | Soulful Poetry
Dropping the Armor One day – maybe because it’s time or because the weight has become too crushing – you drop the armor around your heart so you can breathe and love in this world undefended. Lisa McCrohan, MA, LCSW-C, SEP There comes a time in our lives when we just...
by Lisa McCrohan | Oct 14, 2019 | Following what delights your heart, Soulful Poetry
Start Now Start Now. Whatever it is that has been on your heart to try, create, or embrace – just take one soulful action today toward that desire. Life is so short and precious. Let’s live it with a full, imperfect, messy, will-risk-love heart. We really do...