Lisa McCrohan

Love Starts Here

by Lisa McCrohan | Jan 22, 2016 | Nourishing Our Connections, Soulful Poetry

Love Starts Here Love starts here – gently placing your own hand on your heart, feeling this breath as it arises – full or shallow – and loving what is, however it is, within you. And then, slowly, from such radical acceptance love begins to flow again within...

When we can’t see the “depth of devotion” but rather “nit-pick” the imperfections

by Lisa McCrohan | Jan 6, 2016 | Cultivating Compassion

I went outside this morning to warm up the car before taking the kiddos to school. As I sat in the cold driver’s seat looking at the ice-covered windshield, I thought about how many times my dad, during 40+ years of getting up early before any of us and going to work,...

The Invitation to be Held

by Lisa McCrohan | Nov 10, 2015 | Serving, Healing and Transforming Our World, Soulful Poetry

It was an ordinary Monday. But the stories I heard – in one day – were anything but ordinary. A husband has stage 4 cancer. A wife lost her job. A woman is saying “enough” to abuse. A teenager is cutting. Parents lost their baby. A divorce...

Come Closer

by Lisa McCrohan | Oct 22, 2015 | Uncategorized

Come Closer What if one day you let the sadness, the grief stuck under your ribs, the regret lodged in your throat, the shame still folding down the corners of those precious lips to come closer to not push them away or angrily shake your finger scolding them for...

Yes, you too can do something

by Lisa McCrohan | Sep 4, 2015 | Cultivating Compassion, Parenting with Compassion, Serving, Healing and Transforming Our World

Over the past week, I have had hundreds of thousands of people reading and sharing this message of “being an includer” on one of my blog posts. So much so that my server couldn’t handle all the traffic. I had hundreds of emails and many comments on...