• Savor Adversity,  Savor the Journey

    The beauty of feeling understood

    My sons are lovely beautiful creatures, divinely formed and gifted with many super wonderful qualities. There. I started off positively. That’s good, right? Thanks. Honestly though, my oldest two sons are so trying! They are brilliant and curious and creative, but so trying. No amount of keeping up with them amounts at all to feeling like we (the parents) have anything at all under control. We have journeyed through many different parenting strategies, have attempted to understand them through many a lenses. Even when we manage a semblance of calm at home, as soon as we journey into the world of excitement, – or even worse, allow a beloved guest…

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    Kids: Words, Thoughts, and Love

    Over the last several months, I have committed to weekly networking lunches with women from all walks of life. In committing to and opening myself up for these conversations, I have been amazed at all that I have learned as a result. One such conversation led me to the book Quantum Success by Christy Whitman. I will probably need to spend months (maybe a year. seriously.) reading and re-reading this book to even begin to digest its contents, but there was been one specific point that immediately did flips in my mind: the power of thoughts. “Our thoughts are like seeds, and our minds are like a fertile field of soil that…