Special-Needs Parenting
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Gratitude on the Plate: How Blessing Your Food Nourishes You Twice
We are often inspired when we go on road trips to visit friends and loved ones, and they dish out their very best, family-loved meals. My step-son got his favorite Zuppa Toscana for his birthday, and I’ll be making it soon. His wife served up Blueberry Dutch Baby for breakfast, and I’ve added it to Continue reading
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Loving a Child into Life: The Transformative Power of Their Space
A woman commented recently, “My stepson is a psychopath. It’s hard to be around him.” Sometimes children act out because they feel unloved, uncared for, like they are invisible or don’t matter. Sometimes a parent’s ego or negative programming makes it difficult to “soften up” when we are accustomed to feeling the same contempt that Continue reading
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Community as a Form of Home-Care
Living in a rural, hilly community has taught me something I treasure: work and family often move together here. It’s common to see home‑maintenance professionals arrive with a spouse, a sibling, or a teenager learning the trade. Extra hands lighten the load, shorten the workday, and quietly pass practical skills from one generation to the Continue reading
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An Experiment with Nonlocal Healing
Affirmations are a powerful tool for healing and personal development that can actually be improved upon with the use of technology. I’ve recently found a 30-minute presentation of healing affirmations that is clearly a total mind experience, engaging both hemispheres of the brain with sound that travels (with headphones) like a rainbow arc from one Continue reading
