Inclining the mind toward gratitude, cultivating a heart posture overflowing with gratefulness
My spouse's blue eyes filled with kindness as he says "goodbye" to me no matter the kind of morning we've all had. My daughter's kind words as she looks over my shoulder at the work I am doing. My son pats on my back at the end of a hug between us before he catches...
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Your Wings: Learning to Rise and Lead
Your Wings Why are you still playing small? Rise up, my Love. The nest you are in is too small for you. Jump out! Take a leap and fly! You were meant to soar. Your wings were meant to draw people’s eyes up to the heavens in awe. Lisa McCrohan, © 2018 I know so many...
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The NEW “boys will be boys”
These public middle school boys are giving a whole new meaning to the phrase “boys will be boys.” It will fill your heart - and our world - with hope. Do you want to know what the new “boys will be boys” is? It’s this. My friend texted yesterday and said that her...
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Our Children, Their Bodies: promoting positive body image in tweens and teens
Promoting a positive body image in our tweens and teens starts with regard. Awhile back I was talking to a client who has a tween son. She said to me, "Sports have started up and OHHHHH my god, the smell!" She told the story of how he came home from practice and she...
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Planting the Seed of Meaning and Purpose in our children’s lives
Two years after I had graduated from college, I discerned that I was going to work and live in solidarity with the marginalized. I didn’t want to just work at a free clinic and then go home to my nice apartment. I wanted to be alongside the marginalized. I looked into...
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Addressing your child’s anxiety – for real.
Anxiety in children is on the rise. Here I talk straight and get real about it. I talked to a dad in coaching who shared with me that he and his wife were struggling with their middle school-aged child. He had increasingly become anxious and even “OCD” about things,...
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Teaching responsibility and natural consequences to children
The other day, I stood there listing out to my son the things he had to do before he left for soccer practice and what he should be doing with his time. And then I just stopped. I stopped talking. I stopped time-keeping. I stopped nagging. I stopped micromanaging....
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Parenting a teen? Talk less and listen more.
Last night I needed to talk less and listen more. My family knows that I am not at my best at night. I am tired and sensitive. And yet it’s bedtime that my children often want to talk. Sometimes I can barely handle it. I get more easily triggered. I don’t respond...
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The number one trauma parents want to prevent: child sexual abuse
We're going to talk about something hard today: preventing child sexual abuse. I lived in Boston at the time when the first child sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic church broke and became public. Like many people, I was shocked, disgusted, and angry. It was such...
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It’s time for beauty, honor, and integrity
It's Time for Beauty When your heart is heavy, when your eyes are tired, when you’ve been working too much and too hard, when your anxiety runs high, when you’ve read about yet another cruelty happening in our world... let it be time for beauty. Yes, pause just...
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