by Lisa McCrohan | Jan 26, 2015 | Living Your Spirituality in Everyday Life, Mindfulness in Everyday Life, Parenting with Compassion
“Briaaaaaaaan,” I found myself saying the other day. My tone was filled with frustration over something I don’t even remember right now. That evening, I went to sleep angry. The next morning, I woke up before everyone. In the quiet darkness of...
by Lisa McCrohan | Jan 12, 2015 | Cultivating Compassion, Living Your Spirituality in Everyday Life, Soulful Poetry
Come Closer By Lisa McCrohan What if one day you let the sadness, the grief stuck under your ribs, the regret lodged in your throat, the shame still folding down the corners of those precious lips to come closer to not push them away or angrily shake your finger...
by Lisa McCrohan | Nov 12, 2014 | Living Your Spirituality in Everyday Life, Soulful Poetry
Belonging My Darling, how is it that you search for belonging like a poor beggar on hands and knees frantically scrounging the dirt floor for food? My Dear Heart, if you wish, I can continue to beg and scrounge alongside you, and we can keep bruising our hands and...
by Lisa McCrohan | Aug 23, 2014 | Living Your Spirituality in Everyday Life, Mindfulness in Everyday Life
For us, school starts on Monday. Last year, when the world could easily swallow us and rob us of the sacred, this is one ritual in everyday life that I worked hard to never miss: I hurry to get out the door and into the carline to pick up my son from school. I have to...
by Lisa McCrohan | Apr 17, 2014 | Living Your Spirituality in Everyday Life, Soulful Poetry
Hope’s Arrival Though fragile, I grow Tenaciously I will rise Always toward the light. Lisa A. McCrohan, MA, LCSW-C, SEP “Lisa!” a neighbor called to me as I rushed to my car to pick up my daughter from school. “I have something for you” she said as she...
by Lisa McCrohan | Nov 11, 2013 | Happiness, Delight, Joy, Awe, Living Your Spirituality in Everyday Life
“Do you want to get real with yourself? Do you want to really know what’s most important?” My meditation teacher asked me one day in session years ago. “Definitely!” I said, with bated breath, waiting to hear what he was about to share. “Start to ask yourself, ‘What...