Mar 30, 2021
Picture yourself tired, hungry, or worried, sharing your angst with a spouse or a friend and they start trying to fix or change you with their agenda. How do you behave? Do your words come out kindly. Perhaps you even say things you actually don't mean trying to get them to back-off. You've descended into what Dan...
Mar 23, 2021
Clearly, when facing reality I recognize parenting is often
challenging and messy, and yet there is still this little niggly
fantasy that at some point I'll transcend the pain and glide
through life feeling peaceful and loving. My attachment to pleasure
over pain gets me and I find myself circling back around...
Mar 16, 2021
Conditioning through our upbringing and culture is a given.
Unconsciously we take the deep divisions and dislikes we feel
inside and about ourselves projecting them outwards, especially
onto our children.
Projecting my stuff onto my daughter, she becomes the location of
the disliked parts in me. When I perceive...
Mar 9, 2021
Do
you ever find it hard to let go of control? I didn’t fully
experience how controlling I am until becoming a parent. Have you
noticed this as being true?
Loving the feeling of being in control, naturally, I have a
daughter who mirrors the same. Control battles ensued when either
of us felt emotionally...
Mar 2, 2021
Do
these words sound familiar? “I can’t let my kid….”
As
in "I can't let my kid stay on the computer for hours”, “do her
homework while listening to podcasts”, “eat only pasta seven days a
week”.
Going to that place, which we all do, of looking at the reality of
what is and then making a...