Lisa McCrohan

It’s Time Now

by Lisa McCrohan | May 18, 2016 | Following what delights your heart, Serving, Healing and Transforming Our World, Soulful Poetry

It’s Time Now By Lisa McCrohan It’s time now to believe that you are good and whole perfect just as you are. Yes, that’s right – exactly as you are. Not only when you have patience, you are Zen calm, and you have it all together. But also when emotions run high,...

life is hard — letting love in and doing it together

by Lisa McCrohan | May 11, 2016 | Mindfulness in Everyday Life, Nourishing Our Connections

A little while ago, I woke up with a heavy heart. Everyone was still asleep. I laid there in the quiet, in bed, noticing what was on my heart. Tears started to well up: I had touched a tender, sad place within me. There’s a reality to motherhood that I haven’t gotten...

The Privilege to Be Alive

by Lisa McCrohan | May 3, 2016 | Living Your Spirituality in Everyday Life

It was a little, “nothing out of the ordinary” moment the other night. My husband had just left for a meeting. My daughter was over a neighbor’s house and I was taking our son to practice. We were getting into the car when I saw that our neighbor was calling. I...

When We Are Mean: Healing the Harshness Within You and Between You and Your Dear Ones

by Lisa McCrohan | Apr 27, 2016 | Nourishing Our Connections, Parenting with Compassion

“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi I watched a girl who was about nine years old get out of the car and she forgot to close the door as she looked excited to go into Target. “Close the door!” her mom said, in a tone that rattled my...

Go Gently

by Lisa McCrohan | Apr 12, 2016 | Cultivating Compassion, Soulful Poetry

Go Gently Go gently into your day. Before you jump out of bed and brace yourself to meet the world again, pause and feel your breath. Gently allow your hands to instinctually offer comfort to the places on your body that have already started to fill with tension...