Dr. Shefali’s latest book A Radical Awakening: Turn Pain Into Power. Embrace Your Truth. Live Free hit shelves in May. I finished her book yesterday and, as expected, it challenged my edges and expanded my thinking as all good books do! (Dr. Shefali is one of the most impactful teachers that I’ve studied with and am certified in Conscious Parenting Coaching from.) Here are a few of the new insights I became present to while …
I created a fun new habit I want to share with you. It helps me slow down and be present. It helps me savor special moments. (Savoring is a high-impact way of practicing gratitude.) It helps me create memories, which improves feelings of contentment. It helps me enjoy life more. It’s something I call snapshots. When my little boys who aren’t so little any more are wrapped up tight in a brotherly embrace, I take …
My boys were decorating my office last week. Kyen hung up his freshly painted artwork, while Maverick wrote some wobbly, still-figuring-out-letters, first-grade handwriting notes on my white board. Here’s what they said: Think good. Be you. Be great. You rock. Hope. Love. I’ve been fine-tuning my messaging since I started coaching and writing many years ago, but I think Mav summed up the most important lessons on joy and success right there on my whiteboard. …
Being a present parent isn’t about the amount of time you spend with your children. It’s about the quality of the time you spend with them. A lot of us are physically present with our children – we are in the same room or car as them – but we are not mentally or emotionally present. We might be scrolling social media or incessantly checking our email, in our thoughts about a work problem or …
Expressing our feelings is a key contributor to our (and our children’s) emotional, mental – even physical – health. If we don’t express our feelings, they tend to come out sideways later (sometimes decades later) in the form or resentment, rage, or disease. As one of my former clients said, “As an overachiever, I’d become really effective at suppressing my feelings. When unprocessed and unacknowledged, they would resurface unproductively in my life. One of the …