As your children step out into the world - whether entering elementary school, going off to college, or taking a gap year to explore the world - it is a new and sacred threshold for you and them. Read more about honoring this passage here.

Here are three keys for developing an even closer relationship with your child [with anyone, really!) and for modeling how you create tender closeness.

The teen years can be a time of chaos and tension for families. Practicing self-compassion is a way for parents to ground themselves.

We often balk at handing over responsibilities to our child that could lead to greater confidence for them and more time for us! Take a look at the three clues that it may be time to stop doing for your child.

Along with our cars, homes, and equipment, our relationships benefit from regular maintenance. Here are some ways to take notice and take action to increase your closeness!

The benefits of befriending your nervous system - whether you are a parent or not - are many. Your nervous system is amazing, and understanding its guidance is invaluable. Read on!

Being for yourself is not being against others. Here are ways to guide your child to befriend themself and for you to befriend yourself as the ultimate guide for them!

Self-care can look very different once you become a parent! Here are ideas for taking good care of yourself as you embark on this new journey. These suggestions are terrific for everyone - parent or not.

In our scarcity culture – a concept outlined by Brene Brown in her book Daring Greatly – we marinate in a world of shaming events, comparison, and disengagement. How do we raise confident, resilient children in an environment which not only does not foster those attributes but also undermines them?

Would you like more peace and unity around the dinner table this Thanksgiving or any time that you gather together? Here are some ideas to avoid the debates, rants, and slurs along with the uneasiness they can cause.

We handle things better from a space of calm, and yet, we can also lose it, reacting in ways we regret. Here are some ways to return to calm so that you feel good about how you handle situations and relationships.

In his article, The Heart of the Teacher, Parker J. Palmer wrote, “We teach who we are.”  Although this is about educators, the same could be said of how parents teach their children.  It is not so much what we say.  It is what our children observe us doing and how our children perceive our being.

Self-compassion is not simply a concept or an embraceable idea. It is a practice - something that you do. And the results are life-enhancing!

Getting on the floor and playing with their child is not every mom’s cup of tea. That doesn’t mean you are a bad mom. Find ways in which you relish play with your kids - maybe through sports, kayaking, cooking, walking - so that you show up with joy knowing that self-directed play is how children learn.

I discovered that my father’s outside voice had become my inside voice. It was a great learning opportunity!

Air travel today is incredibly challenging and stressful. Awareness of your own nervous system and noticing what is happening with a child’s, friend’s, or spouse’s nervous system can make your trip much smoother.

Trust matters in relationships, and yet we are not taught much about trust as we grow up. Here are some ways to view trust that can assist you in being trustworthy, in developing trust, in understanding why you may not trust someone, and in repairing trust if it has been broken.

Confidence is something that you can develop within yourself, and it is something that you can nurture in your children. Here are more ways on how to do just that!

There are ways to nurture confidence in your children and in yourself. Here are a few!

Disrespect can be a big trigger for teens, adults, parents, grandparents, managers, spouses. Everyone. How can we gain respect, understand respect, and be more self-respecting? Read on!