I work with a lot of coaches. This is an understatement, because I am surrounded by coaches in both my professional and social life. They are my clients, but also my friends. I do technical production for probably the best coaching school teaching enrollment (CFJ Coaching Success School), and I both worked for and graduated…
Acceptance and love of yourself is the only way you will ever be able to have a deep and meaningful relationship with someone. You cannot accept others if you don’t accept you. Accepting yourself and your experience is the precursor to being able to accept others. It’s like a key to a lock. Without learning…
Our feelings come from our thinking about a situation, or the meaning we personally make of it. (Often, this interpretation of a situation, the “meaning making” happens so quickly that it is hard to catch) When you get upset and reactive with your child, you have made meaning of their behavior, and it’s not a…
“When my child whines and cries it drives me nuts and I want to either shut them down or avoid them. Help!” It looks like the child’s distress leads to your distress. If we parents never learned to fully SELF regulate, to identify and balance our own emotions, then we as adults will take on…
What if most of the work of parenting was not to correct our children when they did something wrong, but an ongoing effort to help children learn about themselves and the world so that they naturally chose to do good things for themselves and others? It’s a leap of faith to trust that children have…
The practice of peaceful parenting has a solid foundation and has transformed my life, but it is relatively and evolving as we speak. Thanks to all of the pioneers and early promoters of this approach, we all have benefited and learned so much. I have much better relationships with my children now than I did…