When your child is doing something that makes no sense to you, you make up a story to help make sense of it. Sometimes this story is helpful. Sometimes it’s not. We all do this. And it happened to us when we were growing up, too – our parent(s) made up stories about our behaviors. Maybe you’ve had the experience
Read MoreHow is this different from your other courses in the Learning Center? This course is a guided course. Rebecca is creating the content for this group as we go along, customizing it for your questions and stories. There is live support in both the Facebook group and the Healing Story Circle calls, with other members of the class, specifically about this material.
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Whenever I ask a group of parents what they want for their children, the topic of respect inevitably comes up. Parents want their children to be respected, but parents also want to feel respected by their children. Many parents grew up not feeling respected themselves and most parents, it turns out, grew up having at least one experience (most had
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Your child is on the playground and falls. She isn’t injured badly, but clearly the wind has been knocked out and it scared her. What do you do? How do you feel in that moment? Are you stifling your own fears? (She could really have gotten badly injured!!) Are you feeling disconnected? (She shouldn’t have been doing that and she
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“Mama, will you read?” These are words I hear often, and I really cherish them. Sometimes I just don’t have a few minutes to stop what I’m doing and read aloud to my kids, but I really try to say yes anytime I can. My son is 12 years old now, but he still looks at me with the same
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The anger was rising in the room. Everyone could feel it. His face was red, fists and teeth clenched. Breathing was heavy. Maybe you’ve experienced something similar. Perhaps it was your partner or your child that was upset. I was becoming aware of the lump in my own throat. The pressure in my chest was moving up into my throat
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Moms’ Night Out! A coveted part of many moms’ lives. You get to take a shower, put on some makeup, and wear grown-up clothes. And the best part? You get to talk to grown-ups – and ones you like, for that matter. Here I was in my dress that finally fit me again, babysitter engaged, and my friend waiting for
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I was having a conversation in the car with my friend, Janet Conner. (If her name sounds familiar, she’s the author of the book, Writing Down Your Soul. I’ve interviewed her more than once about her soul writing process. She’s a good friend of mine and I love her work.) Back to the car. We always have wild conversations on the
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Parenting doesn’t stop at bedtime. When a child asks for things or voices a need, it is not something to grumble about, as if you are on parent overtime. It is THE time. It is the time they need you the most emotionally. It’s the time they are lying in bed, mind reeling, and all sorts of emotions begin to
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“I’m really struggling with nursing my 2 year old,” the mother confided. “I can’t say this to very many people because most people just say that I should wean. But that doesn’t feel right to me, either. So I nurse her even though I really don’t feel like it and I resent her for it. I want to meet Sarah’s
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