Transformation. It’s a word we hear all the time in workshops, self-help books and spiritually-minded circles. Yet, unless we’ve experienced severe…

Giving up control is one of the hardest parenting traps for me to get out of. Growing up in a tumultuous and unstable household, tightly controlling…

I experienced a deeply painful turning point in my life this past summer. Before that, I definitely fell into the parenting pitfall of coddling my young daughter…

Love and fear cannot exist in the same moment. This core premise that underpins Conscious Parenting’s Myth #5…

This morning as I was helping my four-year-old daughter, Lexi, get ready for school, she asked: “Where’s daddy? Why isn’t he taking me to school?”

How would you answer this question: “Is your child good or bad?” “When are they good?” “When are they bad?”

I have what conventional parenting experts call a “strong willed child.” My daughter’s propensity for…

If we had been taught in childhood, by our parents and teachers, to honor the activities and interests that naturally ignited our curiosity…

Cooped up at home trying to balance work and childcare, I’ve found my fuse short, anxiety and frustration lurking just below the surface of calm capability…

Like many of you who are riding out the coronavirus pandemic with little ones at home, I have been challenged to keep my three-year-old occupied…

The coronavirus pandemic has forced many of us to get up close and personal with our children’s development and education…

I was sitting on a smooth, warm rock, by the side of a Colorado stream that carved through a small canyon near my home…

The beauty of non-attachment is that it lands us in the present moment and ignites a vibrancy that’s not possible when we’re gunning – or manipulating…

I live in Boulder, CO where our community is blessed by the peaceful co-mingling of many spiritual traditions. I was raised in the Episcopal Church…

I was sitting in my bedroom, head in my hands, sobbing silently. It was the first time I’d allowed my then two-year-old daughter, Lexi, to see me in an emotional state…

I saw the email pop up on my screen and suddenly my entire body get hot and tingly. “Bring Your Own Dinner! 6 PM” it said…

Staying at home during the novel coronavirus pandemic hasn’t just changed our daily routines, it’s dramatically impacted the larger world in which we live, perhaps forever…

Twice in the past 24 hours, I’ve experienced the hot, silent tears that come when I’m overwhelmed by an emotional surge of simultaneous joy and pain…

I was recently walking in the park with my mom, and my 3-year-old daughter, listening to the Spring birds trilling back and forth, smelling the flowering trees on the breeze…

The coronavirus outbreak has transformed so many of our lives overnight. In my case, I’m lucky to be able to work remotely…