by Lisa McCrohan | Oct 17, 2011 | Living Your Spirituality in Everyday Life, Mindfulness in Everyday Life
I love how insight comes at random times. There we were, my fellow mama friend and me working out at the Y, BY OURSELVES with no kiddos at 7:15 at night, moving our tushes on the elliptical trainer, talking about life, what we are wrestling with, letting go of, what...
by Lisa McCrohan | Oct 5, 2011 | Cultivating Compassion, Mindfulness in Everyday Life, Parenting with Compassion
After I picked up A. from preschool this afternoon, my little honey says, “Mom, ya know what?” Me: “What love?” A.: “I’ve got a thousand hearts in my heart.” Me: “That’s lovely, A.” A.: “Yeah. That...
by Lisa McCrohan | Sep 28, 2011 | Living Your Spirituality in Everyday Life, Mindfulness in Everyday Life
As Brian and I assess and discern some new possibilities in our life, I am finding that there is a growing awareness of and appreciation for the life we have. Often in the daily “doing” of our lives, day after day, it’s hard to see the “bigger...
by Lisa McCrohan | Sep 22, 2011 | Living Your Spirituality in Everyday Life
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....
by Lisa McCrohan | Sep 16, 2011 | Happiness, Delight, Joy, Awe, Mindfulness in Everyday Life
Lately I have been reflecting on this theme of “individual happiness” and how it relates to “other people’s happiness.” We all want to be happy (and healthy). Just look at any bookstore and you’ll see shelves of books about happiness. There is an...
