by Lisa McCrohan | Dec 8, 2016 | Cultivating Compassion, Nourishing Our Connections
I’m standing at the hospital bed of one of my dearest friends. There are tubes every which way, machines making noises. I don’t know if he will “pull through” or not. So I take this precious moment as an opportunity to bless him, kiss him on...
by Lisa McCrohan | Jul 12, 2016 | Cultivating Compassion, Serving, Healing and Transforming Our World
Hate is taught. Love is our true nature. Awhile ago, my son asked me what “gay” meant. I didn’t know what prompted him asking. I also thought he knew – we have family and friends who are gay. He has met their partners before. But I decided to answer his question. So I...
by Lisa McCrohan | Apr 12, 2016 | Cultivating Compassion, Soulful Poetry
Go Gently Go gently into your day. Before you jump out of bed and brace yourself to meet the world again, pause and feel your breath. Gently allow your hands to instinctually offer comfort to the places on your body that have already started to fill with tension...
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,...
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...
by Lisa McCrohan | Aug 21, 2015 | Cultivating Compassion, Parenting with Compassion
A year ago, I asked our guidance counselor at our school, Deb, what she thought were the most important messages our boys needed to hear. At that time, I was sitting with the kinds of messages that we send our boys. I wanted to create a wrist wrap with those...
