by Lisa McCrohan | Oct 1, 2018 | Professional Development, Serving, Healing and Transforming Our World, Soulful Poetry
Your Wings Why are you still playing small? Rise up, my Love. The nest you are in is too small for you. Jump out! Take a leap and fly! You were meant to soar. Your wings were meant to draw people’s eyes up to the heavens in awe. Lisa McCrohan, © 2018 I know so many...
by Lisa McCrohan | Sep 13, 2018 | living with intention and purpose, Regarding Our Children, Serving, Healing and Transforming Our World
Two years after I had graduated from college, I discerned that I was going to work and live in solidarity with the marginalized. I didn’t want to just work at a free clinic and then go home to my nice apartment. I wanted to be alongside the marginalized. I looked into...
by Lisa McCrohan | Jul 4, 2018 | Cultivating Compassion, Regarding Our Children, Serving, Healing and Transforming Our World
“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 lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand...
by Lisa McCrohan | Jun 18, 2018 | Cultivating Compassion, Regarding Our Children, Serving, Healing and Transforming Our 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 with a sign that read, “Homeless veteran. Please...
by Lisa McCrohan | Jun 7, 2018 | Serving, Healing and Transforming Our World
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 their first appointment,” I shared with her. “We as women have been...
by Lisa McCrohan | Feb 18, 2018 | Parenting with Compassion, Regarding Our Children, Serving, Healing and Transforming Our World
I can remember the moment, six years ago, when my son started kindergarten. I was like every mom with her first child: I was nervous about how he would be regarded by his teachers and peers. I was nervous if he’d be cared for with kindness. I hoped his teachers...