by Lisa McCrohan | Mar 9, 2017 | Living Your Spirituality in Everyday Life, Mindfulness in Everyday Life
“I want my joy back,” a new Compassion Coaching client said to me, looking both focused and sad. “How in the hell am I living?! I wake up with my mind racing and my heart pounding. I hardly slow down to eat breakfast or look at my children. There has...
by Lisa McCrohan | Feb 28, 2017 | Living Your Spirituality in Everyday Life, Mindful Motherhood
It’s time I start sharing about my first book: Gems of Delight: seasonal inspirations for moms to heal the hurry and embrace what is sacred. For many years, readers of my blog and clients in psychotherapy and Compassion Coaching have asked me, “When will you...
by Lisa McCrohan | Dec 30, 2016 | Happiness, Delight, Joy, Awe, Living Your Spirituality in Everyday Life, Mindfulness in Everyday Life
For the last several years, around this same time at the end of the year, I do the same thing: While everyone is still asleep as I lay here in my bed, in the quiet. It’s still dark and cold outside. I’m warm and comfy in my bed thinking about this new year. I don’t...
by Lisa McCrohan | Dec 21, 2016 | Happiness, Delight, Joy, Awe, Living Your Spirituality in Everyday Life
{I talk, God listens}. It’s 2:30 a.m., God. And I am awake – silence, darkness, my pen and notepad, and my warm covers. Without the distractions of the day, the darkness provides a holy opportunity to listen and connect. Keith is dead {*Keith is a dear friend of...
by Lisa McCrohan | Dec 16, 2016 | Cultivating Compassion, Living Your Spirituality in Everyday Life, Soulful Poetry
Yes to the Mess Yes to the mess of ribbon and wrapping paper on the floor. Yes to the perfect gift you picked out and no one thanked you. Yes to the laughter and joy. Yes to the quiet ache of loneliness still lingering within you. Yes to the “best china” and the plate...
by Lisa McCrohan | Sep 10, 2016 | Following what delights your heart, Living Your Spirituality in Everyday Life, Serving, Healing and Transforming Our World
I hear it. I sense it. Within you. Within me. A fire growing. A wave forming. A revolution of the heart-body-mind-spirit rising. We are done putting our attention (effort, energy, time…our sacred time) into what doesn’t serve us, what doesn’t feel like “right...