by Lisa McCrohan | Mar 22, 2012 | Cultivating Compassion, Mindful Motherhood, Mindfulness in Everyday Life
I wrote a post awhile back titled “Enough.” Enough of us women playing small, cutting on other women, displacing our anger, and enough of not believing in ourselves, our dreams, and each other. “Enough” is rising up in me like a volcano. I see...
by Lisa McCrohan | Mar 12, 2012 | Living Your Spirituality in Everyday Life, Mindful Motherhood, Mindfulness in Everyday Life
What if we met any experience, feeling, or thought with total, radical acceptance? What if, instead of pushing away pain and fear, we invited them in? To sit down next to us. To have tea. Or, in my case, sit on the street curb with me. What if we treated them as a...
by Lisa McCrohan | Mar 10, 2012 | Living Your Spirituality in Everyday Life, Mindfulness in Everyday Life
Soften, soften, soften. Whenever we wake up and realize that we have hardened our hearts, that we are pulling away, that we are wanting to be right and standing our ground, that our anger has led us far away from what we really want (to belong, to be loved, to be...
by Lisa McCrohan | Feb 2, 2012 | Happiness, Delight, Joy, Awe, Living Your Spirituality in Everyday Life, Mindfulness in Everyday Life
In the late 1990s there was a movie titled “Hope Floats.” Yes, hope can be buoyant. It can rise to the surface and remain no matter the waters. While I can identify with those “watery” qualities of hope, for me, hope doesn’t float. It sprouts. It grows. It sends...
by Lisa McCrohan | Jan 14, 2012 | Happiness, Delight, Joy, Awe
My birthday is coming up. I woke up with the prompting to write a letter to myself. I’d highly recommend trying this on your next birthday. Dear Lisa, On your 38th birthday… Ahhhhh….Dear One, happy birthday! Do you remember when you were little, on a hot August day,...