To Do’s For Today (and the next few weeks during school closures): Focus on creating a sense of safety, closeness and connection with your kiddos. Establish a bit of a routine to help ground them (and you). Create a schedule together with playtime, reading time, meal times, outdoor time, and so on. Have the [...]
Honoring Differentiation “We are all vulnerable to confusing closeness with sameness. Real intimacy requires a profound respect for differences.” - Harriet Lerner Standing with our hands on our hearts and our eyes closed, the women in our Mindful Moms circle drew in a slow, deep breath as we said silently in our minds, “This is [...]
Turning Towards Feelings “The more painful your feelings, the more likely you are to hold the experience at bay, never able to fully let it in so that it can be processed and relinquished. Nor are you able to let it go…for you cannot fully let go of what you have not yet [...]
“Our job as mothers is to work ourselves out of a job.” - Anonymous The very fabric of motherhood is woven together with moments of closeness as well as separation, moments of coming together and moments of letting go. As we approach the beginning of the school year, many of us mothers feel the [...]
The essence of the mindfulness practice is the development of the capacity to turn towards and be with what is there, unfolding within us and around us. In our Mindful Moms group today, we practiced the art of being with. We took time to be with the sensations in our bodies – just as [...]
I’m a mom. And a wife. And a friend. And a social entrepreneur. I run a private practice as a Marriage & Family Therapist in Silicon Valley - with a very full load of 30 clients. And I’m Founder and Director of a charitable organization to support moms - for the benefit and good [...]
