This is Hard
I don’t have an in-depth RIE in Real Life story this week because, despite my best intentions, I still really […]
Read moreConfident Child. Confident Parent.
I don’t have an in-depth RIE in Real Life story this week because, despite my best intentions, I still really […]
Read moreTaking care of difficult feelings. That was the title of the chapter we discussed last week in the Raising Good […]
Read moreIn late January I listened to an excellent webinar, put on by Minding the Baby called The Relational Foundations of […]
Read moreMy logical brain knew that a simple turning of the calendar page, the passing of an arbitrary marker of time […]
Read moreIf you have no compassion for yourself then you are not capable of developing compassion for others.-Dalai Lama Another beautiful, […]
Read moreLast night’s all too brief webinar with Dan Siegel was a really excellent cliff’s note version of the book, The […]
Read moreI called my Grandmother today. It was a quick call, prompted because I wasn’t sure if her electronic picture frame […]
Read moreMy recent piece about trauma was one of my most-responded to articles to date. I expect one of the reasons […]
Read moreThis week I talked to a mom who watched her child go through a life-threatening trauma. I won’t get into […]
Read moreSo, safety was already on my mind because I’ve been reading The Power of Showing Up, another gem by Tina […]
Read moreWhat follows isn’t what I set out to write about today. A few days ago someone posted a screencapture of […]
Read moreJust a short email today to let you know about a wonderful resource for your family…it’s a children’s book written […]
Read more(Beginning in mid-March 2020, when the world shut down, I began a bi-weekly conversation with the parents who had been […]
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