by Lisa McCrohan | Apr 10, 2013 | Cultivating Compassion, Happiness, Delight, Joy, Awe, Mindful Motherhood, Mindfulness in Everyday Life, Parenting with Compassion
When is the last time you talked to someone and they didn’t say they WEREN’T busy?! A conversation usually goes like this: “How are you guys?” “Oh you know, we’ve got such n such going on and then there’s such n such coming...
by Lisa McCrohan | Mar 18, 2013 | Happiness, Delight, Joy, Awe, Mindfulness in Everyday Life
I don’t remember the first time I paused and softly smiled upon hearing the word, “delight.” Maybe it was when my mom said, “How about you write what’s on your heart and call it ‘Gems of Delight’?” As moms usually do,...
by Lisa McCrohan | Mar 7, 2013 | Happiness, Delight, Joy, Awe, Mindfulness in Everyday Life
“Dare to drop the perfect and find the miraculous in your everyday life. We are about living courageously right here in the middle of crazy mornings, mounds of laundry-folding, tantrums (ours and our children’s), deadlines, heartaches, and the quietly content...
by Lisa McCrohan | Feb 14, 2013 | Happiness, Delight, Joy, Awe, Parenting with Compassion, Soulful Poetry
This is What Love Feels Like Laying down for a nap with my daughter curled up with my belly to her back my arms around her little almost three year old body little feet resting on my thighs rhythmic breathing deeply together we sleep sacred holy complete this is what...
by Lisa McCrohan | Feb 11, 2013 | Happiness, Delight, Joy, Awe
As I am recouping from an injury, I have had the blessing of really appreciating the simple things in our life: the kindness of friends and family who want to help us and provide for us the generosity of others the way my daughter’s smile radiates delight how my...
by Lisa McCrohan | Feb 2, 2013 | Cultivating Compassion, Happiness, Delight, Joy, Awe, Parenting with Compassion
It takes courage to admit we can’t. It takes courage to do what we know we need to do to heal while the world around us tries to suck us back into the busyness. Well, friends, last week I stepped on to a moving treadmill that I thought wasn’t moving. And...
