by Lisa McCrohan | Sep 13, 2018 | living with intention and purpose, Regarding Our Children, Serving, Healing and Transforming Our World
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...
by Lisa McCrohan | Sep 4, 2018 | living with intention and purpose, Living Your Spirituality in Everyday Life, Soulful Poetry
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...
by Lisa McCrohan | Jul 22, 2018 | living with intention and purpose, Regarding Our Children
Each day – a new day. A new opportunity to set the compass of your heart. It is so so easy for me to wake up and hit the ground running. Some of it is reality and some of it is self-imposed. I love my work! I love writing! I’ve written before about the...
by Lisa McCrohan | May 27, 2018 | living with intention and purpose
Kissing my mom’s forehead before she went into surgery, not knowing if that would be the last time my lips would feel the warmth of her body, my eyes would see the deep love she has for us in her eyes, or my ears would hear her soft way of saying my name, I...
by Lisa McCrohan | May 1, 2018 | feminine embodiment practices, Happiness, Delight, Joy, Awe, living with intention and purpose
I don’t remember the exact moment when I decided to stop justifying, explaining, rationalizing, or defending my decisions. But I do remember the myriad situations before when I’d “feel bad” for saying “no” to a request, when...
by Lisa McCrohan | Apr 11, 2018 | living with intention and purpose, Mindfulness in Everyday Life
Earlier this year, I noticed how I had slowly dropped my morning habit of quietly journaling, getting grounded, and setting my intention for the day. Instead, I started to work. And I gave away my power first thing in the morning to the pressure of productivity. “Oh...