Category: Parenting
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The art of juggling (my life)
I was quoted last week in an article in U.S. News & World Report entitled 8 Ways to Find More Time in Your Day. I’ve blogged about navigating the challenges of work/life balance before, but this is the first time I think I’ve “outed” myself in the press with regard to how I made it…
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Back to school time
Today, we sent the little one off to her first day of kindergarten and the teen boy off to (gulp) high school. Although the little one clung to my hand in the hallway, as soon as we got to her classroom, she wanted us to be gone. I now understand why I broke my mother’s…
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Put the oxygen mask on yourself first
More and more, I’m hearing my women friends – many of them mothers, but not all – complain about fatigue, insomnia, anxiety, chronic pain or stress-related health issues. Not surprisingly, many of the women who see me for Reiki treatment or wellness coaching report list those as reasons for their visit as well. The demands…
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Dinner table spirituality
We were eating dinner last night, and the following discussion took place, although I don’t recall what prompted it: Daughter: “God is everywhere.” Husband: “Where do you think He is right now?” Daughter: “Daddy, SHE is right here.” At 5 years old, she knows more about the true nature of God (and gender assumptions, apparently)…
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The soul of motherhood
In response to the recent spate of articles sensationalizing parenting choices and emphasizing negative attitudes towards motherhood (just in time for Mother’s Day!), I wanted to offer a different perspective that examines motherhood as a transformative, empowering, and sacred rite of passage and how we can support that process. The psychiatrist Carl Jung defined an…
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The Mother’s Day gift I am giving myself
When I made my decision to step away from corporate life, and focus on my wellness business and my family, I did so partly because I felt the need for more balance in my life. I felt I could not be effective at being present with the things I truly enjoy devoting my time to…
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Offended by breast pumps in the workplace? Get over it.
The New York Times blog, Motherlode, featured a post yesterday about a nursing mother whose (female) co-worker was offended by her breast pump bag sitting out in their shared office space. With the current backlash on nursing in public, I suppose I should not be surprised by this either. I briefly commented on the blog,…
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Our children, our memory and our cars: a fatal triangle?
I may never stop weeping after reading The Washington Post’s feature, “Fatal Distraction: Forgetting a Child in the Backseat of a Car Is a Horrifying Mistake. Is It a Crime?” It was published in 2009, but the heartbreaking stories of children who died as a result of an accidental moment of forgetfulness are not isolated…
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Maternal health care is a right, not an option
In March 2o11, The Maternal Health Accountability Act of 2011 (H.R. 894) was introduced by Rep. John Conyers, D-MI to reduce maternal mortality in the United States, provide greater transparency for reporting on pregnancy-related deaths and improve outcomes through research, education and awareness.(See italicized text below for a summary of the Act’s provisions.) According to…
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