Practicing Self-Love on Valentine’s Day and Every Day
This is an invitation to notice the thoughts you are choosing today and every day. Do your best to observe the thoughts gently, kindly.
How to Set Intentions and Visions for 2021 And Beyond
Intention-setting and visioning can support you in reviewing or renewing your values and prioritizing your passions and interests.
Committing to Self-Care and Community Care
Self-care and collective or community care are experiences and actions that are worthy of our time, energy, and effort. Furthermore, these acts of tending to ourselves and one another are required in order for us to thrive.
Caucasian father daughter enjoying summer time together in the pool
12 Affirmations to Use When You are Facing Self-Doubt
As a parent, you are doing difficult work all day, every day. Self-compassion can be a pathway to deeper connections with ourselves and one another.
A Life I Don’t Want to Numb: Parenting without Alcohol
When I removed alcohol I was able to see what I needed to heal internally and externally, within myself, and my family. I realized I wasn’t the problem, alcohol was.
How to Apologize to Your Teenager
When (not if) you make a “mistake,” you have an “opportunity to repair” the connection with your teenager.
You are Not Your Family, You are YOU
While experiencing a pretty intense emotional reaction, I remembered a powerful truth: I AM NOT MY FAMILY. Their thoughts, behaviors, and actions do not belong to me, do not define me, and do not limit me.
How To Hold Kind and Firm Limits With Your Teens
Limits don’t negate choices. Limits aren’t consequences or punishment. Instead, limits help young people understand boundaries-- their own and other people’s.
How to Start A Spiritual Practice: A Quick Guide for Teenagers
Spiritual practice can be a loaded topic. For some, it refers to cherished and meaningful beliefs and practices, while for others, it’s at best an empty cliché, and at worst it represents the oppression of religious extremism.
Sex Should Feel Good: A Pleasure-Positive Guide for Teens
Humans have sex for a lot of different reasons, but high up there for many of us is that we want to experience sexual pleasure.