Relationships
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Casting Call for Southern California Families!
Does your family like to have big dinners and parties? I was contacted by the casting crew for Trading Spouses because they are looking for Southern California families to try out for a new reality TV show that will showcase families competing against one another in a dinner-cook off. They are looking for families with a minimum of two children ages who love to host and throw dinner parties. Good luck dandelion moms! Here is the information to contact if you are interested!!
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Reflections :: Self-contemplation helps you follow-through
Two weeks ago I posted about the “feminine” function of the psyche, what we might easiest call our emotional and intuitive inner life. In depth psychology, we name this the anima. A common wound in our logic-driven society is to thwart the needs of the inner life, to repress ourselves. It is a theme I write often about, how to gently recognize if we are hurting ourself by focusing too much on doing rather than being. Nurturing the inner function is a priority for a healthy individual. It extends to deeper, more authentic relationships, families, communities and so forth. The relationship with yourself is the starting point! To…
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I am Taking the BlogHer NaBloPoMo November Challenge!
Lately, I have needed a kick in the you know what to be inspired to get my daily posts up. Some days the creative juices aren’t flowing and it can be tough to be inspired every day to write something that you think your readers will find inspiring, useful, or interesting. That is why when I read about the BlogHer NaBloPoMo November Challenge, I thought this just might be the thing to get me back on track and start blogging/posting with fresh eyes. Basically, the challenge is to write a post daily. That’s it. But if you know about the writing process – it isn’t always that easy to write good…
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Fun Ways to Help Your Kids Develop Heart-Healthy Habits
Healthy habits need to be developed early on in a child’s life—the sooner, the better. As parents, we know this, but that doesn’t always make it easier to get our kids to eat vegetables at dinnertime or to turn off the Xbox and go outside. Here are a few strategies you can use to help your kids develop heart-healthy habits that will hopefully stick with them as they grow. Make meals important Eating dinners as a family will help show your child how important it is to eat healthy, and will give you time to come together intentionally and regularly. Breakfasts can sometimes fall by the wayside amid busy…
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Reflections :: Owning our Emotional Lives
Recently I shared the following quote by Barbara Stevens Sullivan on Facebook: “Our resistance to a feminine orientation is tremendous. We are taught in every setting that we should be in control of our lives and that our lives will proceed in positive directions if we control them properly. We are urged to refuse to give in to depression and despair, to think positively. The consequence of this attitude is not an increasingly widespread incidence of happiness, it is rather a situation in which people feel guilty about their depression and despair, exacerbating their pain by struggling against the legitimate suffering that life involves and that, when submitted to, ultimately…
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Talk to You Kids about National Bullying Prevention Month
October is National Bullying Prevention Month and many organizations have provided some information to help parents and educators teach their children how best to handle these types of situations. National Bullying Prevention Month is a campaign in the United States founded in 2006 by PACER’s National Center for Bullying Prevention. The campaign unites communities nationwide to educate and raise awareness of bullying prevention. I think most of us either experienced or saw a classmate be bullied while in grade school. But when we were children we didn’t have to worry about Internet or cyber bullying that our kids face today. Bullying can be verbal, physical, or via the Internet.…
