Dear Sister of the Heart, I am just back from a wonderful workshop weekend with 40 mothers and their preteen daughters. On Friday night of the weekend, Eliza and I told the old Russian fairytale, Vasalisa the Wise: The Girl With the Doll in Her Pocket. We tell this initiation story at our workshop weekends […]
Read MoreMothering and Your Nervous System with Kimberly Ann Johnson
Do you want more capacity to calm your nervous system as you mother? I know that I am always looking for ways to soothe my frayed nerves- actually to prevent them from being frayed in the first place- as I mother my girl. Immersing myself in Kimberly Ann Johnson’s work has been a game […]
Read MoreWhat we mamas can learn from Maria von Trapp about emotional mastery
Dear Sister of the Heart, Remember that scene in The Sound of Music, when Maria is having her first dinner with the von Trapp family? She arrives late, of course, and promptly sits on a pinecone (placed by the devious children who want her gone) and she shouts very loudly. Captain von Trapp is alarmed, […]
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