Mindful Parenting Archives

Practicing Self-Compassion: Parenting a Newborn in a Pandemic

Parenting is one of the most exciting, challenging, joyful and exhausting times in a person’s life. The adjustment to bringing home a new member of the family is a time typically filled with big emotions and learning to understand one another in this new space...

Calming the Mind: The Brain and Neural Pathways

Mindful Parenting

It is a commonly held view that meditation is a way to shut off the pressures of your world or of your own mind, but this is not an accurate impression. Meditation is neither shutting things out or off. It is seeing things clearly and deliberately positioning yourself...

How to help children manage stress with mindfulness

Mindful Parenting

Young children are at the very beginning of developing skillful responses to change, and just like the rest of us, can feel frustrated or anxious. They experience changes both large and small. Larger changes children experience: The arrival of a new sibling A parent...

“Expecting” and Beginner’s Mind

Integrative Health, Mindful Parenting

“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.” – Suzuki RoshiWhen you have a baby on the way, you inevitably put a fair amount of energy into planning, anticipating and preparing for what to ‘expect’. We help families both...

Old and New/East and West

Integrative Health, Mindful Parenting

While scientists around the world are exploring the impacts of meditation via brain imaging techniques and measuring hormones and biochemical responses, the practices of yoga and meditation have been serving as perhaps the oldest science of psychology and wellbeing...

Loving Fearlessly. If only for a moment.

Consider Parenting, Mindful Parenting

I had one of those moments today when I felt a fearless love for my daughter. Nothing special was happening. I was waking her for school. I crawled into bed with her to start the slow process of pulling her from sleep, finding no alarm works better than the gradual...