Hello Families! We are reading Where the Wild Things Are in my family right now. After so many years since I read this story, I feel like I’m reading it for the first time. I didn’t see the recent movie–not because I’m in the camp that believes that books are always better than movies (but I usually agree) but because we as a family choose to spend less time in front of the TV or computer screen for family...
Read MoreHello families! EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. This technique was designed by Dr. Francine Sharpiro, a Senior Research Fellow at the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto, California. Dr. Sharpiro created EMDR based on the Adaptive Information Processing Model. This model suggests that chronic and acute stress and anxiety is due to a maladaptive encoding in the brain. Maladaptive encoding occurs...
Read MoreDear Families, My heart goes out to all of us. Especially those families who have lost loved ones today in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. I am with you all in spirit and in love. There is no comfort I can say but that I am here if you need me. Remember that no act of violence will ever take the light and goodness out of us. I promise all to work for a more peaceful world. Love, Craig
Read MoreHello world! “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.” –Henry David Thoreau Henry David Thoreau went out and built himself a house and lived off of the land. In the parlance of the times, we might say that he went off the grid. That was his dream. He went out to Walden to live life on his terms. He journaled about his experience in the book Walden. He even accounts for...
Read MoreHello Families! As we enter the first week of post-Thanksgiving, pre-Christmas holiday season, it seems like a good time to discuss conscious eating habits. The three funniest statements about Thanksgiving over-eating that I heard this weekend were: 1. I’m kind of here (at yoga practice) because I’m still in a food coma. 2. Me and my food baby are doing fine. 3. The doctor told me I have to stop eating. The last one...
Read More. Wikipedia notes that Thanksgiving, while a more secular American holiday today, originally had its roots as a special celebration of the fall harvest. The website notes that the first “Thanksgiving” holiday in American history occurred in 1621 in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The website further notes that across time, cultures and religions, there are numerous rituals and ceremonies of special prayers of thanksgiving that...
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