A Confession

June 3, 2013 in behavior, communication, connection, emotions, feelings, growth, mind-body, parenting, peace

I know you may not have heard from me as much as you would have liked (or maybe it was the perfect amount). “I am who I am” (which includes being a father and husband) and to be fully connected, to who I truly am, I needed to focus on myself. So selfish! Yes it is, in a very good
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I’m Full of it!

September 10, 2012 in emotions, feelings, parenting, peace

Have you ever noticed how our children’s emotions are so new? How each one they experience fills up their whole body and overflows? We are excited to bring you our first line of conscious parenting apparel, to remind each of us how full our lives are with blessings.  Please check out our shop and share it with your friends. If
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Stop, Look, Listen!

April 23, 2012 in behavior, children, connection, emotional intelligence, emotions, feelings, parenting

Do you wish there were a magic solution with getting your children to listen? Well get in line! There is a magic solution and it takes you doing something. Not to your children but to yourself. Stop! Look… Listen! We all remember that one, right? It was tought to you when you were a child in regards to crossing the road.
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Using Your Internal GPS

March 16, 2012 in connection, emotions, feelings, growth, parenting

Did you know you have an internal GPS? No, I’m not referring to the one in your phone. Rather, I’m talking about the one inside of you. We each have an internal guidance system (ok, so it’s not GPS, it’s PGS, Personal Guidance System) that lets us know when our needs are met or unmet. The every day words we
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The Smell of Sewage

February 25, 2012 in behavior, feelings, mind-body, stress

What does your inner critic repetitively say? Mine says, “Yes, BUT…. In a conversation with my mom recently we were discussing the Inner Critic, the saboteur, the voice that stops us. We become so used to this voice that we don’t even notice it anymore. But is this voice helping us or harming us? Do you know that if you
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Acceptance of the present moment

February 22, 2012 in children, emotions, favorite blogs, feelings, parenting

Guest blog by Shelly Phillips from Awakeparent.com Wow, I really don’t want to write a blog today.  I can feel myself resisting, procrastinating, and trying to find anything else to occupy my time.  Sound familiar?  Whether it’s dishes, laundry, taxes, a project for work, or just getting off the couch to get some exercise, we all have the tendency to procrastinate.
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Break Down the Wall

February 20, 2012 in behavior, communication, connection, emotions, feelings, growth

Have you ever noticed that you may connect and communicate with one person more easily and freely than with another? Why is this? Why do we act and interact one way when we are with a person, one-on-one, then behave and treat them totally differently when we are with a group of people? This is an invisible wall we have created
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