As an old Italian proverb puts it: "Little children, headache; Big children, heartache." Continuing the rich and juicy conversation of Parenting from last week, we will move into the interesting and provocative stages of adolescence and teens. As much as we watch to...

It may be that the feeling of needing another kind of child to love visits all of us as parents from time to time, when things feel particularly challenging. But if we go deeper we may find that, after all, we can know and love well the children who are ours to love....

When a farmer uses a kind of fertilizer that does not have any effect, he has to change the soil. The same is true for us. We have to change the way we tend to the rich soil that is our Anger. At the moment we become angry, our anger plays its own games. It makes us...

Love is that which calls up all that is not love in order to be healed. Relationships break us open! We connect and we disconnect; we have intimacy and we have isolation. We get injured and we heal in relationship. One of the greatest vehicles for self-awareness is...

When we hide the secret underbelly of our truth from one another, then we each go away wondering, “How come she has it all together? How come her relationship/work/children/life is so successful? What’s wrong with me?” We feel vaguely diminished from this ordinary...

My husband Jonathan and I are launching a new weekly internet radio show called, “He Said, She Said” on VoiceAmerica Variety channel http://www.voiceamerica.com/show/2075/he-said-she-said, on April 6th from 10:00 – 11:00 am Pacific time. Our intention is to provide a...

There is a wonderful scene in the movie Starting Over, in which Burt Reynolds is in the furniture section of a big department store with his girlfriend (Jill Clayburgh) when she proceeds to have an anxiety attack right there in the store. She is moving in with him and...

There is a death that occurred when I became a mother. It didn’t happen right away. In fact, like a successful Broadway show, I had a tremendous run, lasting about four good years. During my pregnancy, childbirth, and the early years, I was shielded from this...

A little late to the party, I am diving into the world of what I hope to be mindful marketing as well as recommitting to writing my blog. What I mean by the word mindful is that this cyber world, where we rarely meet face to face with another being, acts as a...