Last night, I attended a Mindful Parenting Seminar that is held monthly at my local favorite meditation center – the Insight Meditation Center. It was led and wonderfully so by Bob Stahl who is a father to two sons, a mindfulness coach and author. We started off the evening with a 30 minute meditation sitting; [...]
Filed under: Busyness of Life, Mid Life Parenting, Mindful Parenting, Mindfulness on September 15th, 2012 | 2 Comments »
I participated in a wonderful Mindfulness Meditation Class this evening led by a dear friend of mine Alicia McLucas who is incredibly gifted in guiding others in really noticing what is going on in our minds, lives and hearts. I went seeking some clarity on this sense of unrest I have been feeling as of [...]
Filed under: Busyness of Life, Mid Life Parenting, Mindful Parenting, Mindfulness, School Volunteering on September 8th, 2012 | 3 Comments »
I have been asking the question Who Am I? for many years but more so in the past few years since turning 50. I have come to the conclusion for me that how I might identify myself falls into three different categories for the most part. The first being the more obvious labels society and [...]
Filed under: Adoption Coaching, Infertility, Mid Life Parenting, Mindful Parenting, Mindfulness on August 30th, 2012 | No Comments »
My daughter just turned eight in late July and today we toured the new school will be starting on Monday. This new school is for academically gifted children and Andy and I are so proud of all the hard work it took for her to test into and be accepted into this school. I was [...]
Filed under: General adoption information, Mid Life Parenting, Mindful Parenting, Mindfulness on August 23rd, 2012 | 2 Comments »
I am having to learn some hard lessons about giving my daughter some breathing room and let her learn some things on her own. A little background – Ariel has a mild neurological condition called Sensory Processing Disorder. In layman’s terms for her it means that signals from her brain to her body can get [...]
Filed under: Mid Life Parenting, Mindful Parenting, Mindfulness on June 8th, 2012 | No Comments »
I watched an Oprah show I had saved in my DVR about aging, pre-menopause and menopause yesterday that I had taped a while ago. I cried for about 20 minutes after I watched the show – seeing how much my hormonal imbalances had been affecting my well being and keeping me in this “numb”, not [...]
Filed under: Mid Life Parenting, Mindful Parenting, Mindfulness on May 3rd, 2012 | No Comments »
The past four years since I started my business Parenting by Adoption and my work as an Open Adoption Coach, I worked hard to learn all I could stuff into this mid life brain about the process of open adoption. I worked with another adoption professional that had been pivotal in our adoption. I read [...]
Filed under: Adoption Coaching, Domestic Open Adoption, General adoption information, Mid Life Parenting, Mindfulness in Adoption, Parenting An Adopted Child on January 24th, 2012 | 1 Comment »
I am the very blessed Mommy to my now 7 year old daughter, a daughter we adopted at birth in an open adoption. Summer has been a blur of activity with trying to work from home while caring for Ariel, manage some minor health issues for both of us and help my husband coordinate some [...]
Filed under: General adoption information, Mid Life Parenting, Mindfulness in Adoption, Parenting An Adopted Child on August 3rd, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Well I knew before we left for our time at the beach a week ago I was going to need a serious bathing suit to suck me in, pull various parts up and be socially acceptable. I am about 20-25 pounds over my optimal swimming suit weight and am just starting a regular routine at [...]
Filed under: General adoption information, Mid Life Parenting, Mindfulness on July 28th, 2011 | No Comments »
I have been in big denial about my age for a long time. Next month I will be turning 52 and my sweet girl will be turning 7. Up until recently I did not really think about the age thing too much (unless some stranger brought it up with curiosity about whether I was Ariel’s [...]
Filed under: Domestic Open Adoption, Infertility, Mid Life Parenting, Mindfulness in Adoption, Parenting An Adopted Child on June 23rd, 2011 | 4 Comments »