Lisa McCrohan

Sacred Softening

by Lisa McCrohan | Jun 5, 2012 | Soulful Poetry

Sacred Softening My body knows has always known my way back to God. I dance moving in slow sensual swirls under the vastness of a moon-lit night swaying until stillness fills every cell and there are no hard edges striving, panting, thinking only breath and heart....

how the fear of death dissolves

by Lisa McCrohan | May 31, 2012 | Living Your Spirituality in Everyday Life

Ever since I can remember, I had been scared of my parents dying. My dad remembers when I was in middle school and we were traveling with my soccer team to a tournament in North Carolina. My dad was getting dressed and I saw gray hair on his chest (he was all of 40...

Running over a snake

by Lisa McCrohan | May 28, 2012 | Cultivating Compassion, Parenting with Compassion

I have no picture. I didn’t want to take one. There is one already etched in my mind. The other evening, we were all packed up in the minivan and off to our friend’s house for a lovely evening to be had. We parked. We started to get out. Then we...

Regarding Life

by Lisa McCrohan | May 24, 2012 | Cultivating Compassion, Parenting with Compassion

Today, on my way to work, winding around the beautiful Cabin John parkway in DC, next to the Potomac River, at 6:30 in the morning, I saw a huge turtle trying to cross the road. I let out a gasp. Then I quickly looked around to see if there was a place to pull off. Of...

The Miracle in the Now

by Lisa McCrohan | May 21, 2012 | Living Your Spirituality in Everyday Life

The miracle is finding the peace and beauty in the ordinariness of our everyday lives. Seeing it all as SACRED. A gift. May we all experience several miracles today!! (Coming soon…a video series on finding the sacred in everyday...