How to Regulate Your Nervous System as a Mom (When You Can’t Get Five Minutes Alone)
Learn how to regulate your nervous system as a mom: spot your early signs, reset in under a minute, and build real capacity over time.
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A Slow December: How an Unexpected Motel Stay Reminded Me to Breathe
To slow down December with kids, start small: schedule downtime, skip the events that don’t feel right, notice when your kids need rest more than another outing, and let imperfect be enough. A slow December is a handful of small…
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Learning to Fall: What Skateboarding is Teaching Us
I started skateboarding recently. In my 40s. I mean, I fooled around with a board in my teens and twenties, in someone’s cul-de-sac or cruising up and down the Mission Beach boardwalk. There were also the skateboard-keg shuttles in college…
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Embracing Love as Action: Insights from My Oracle Reading
Love as action (not just an emotion). A Shift We ended our summer with quite a bit of change. I wrote a few weeks ago about using this change and crisis to shift. Shortly after I wrote this, I spent…
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“But I don’t like to play….”
Note: this post was originally published as part of the Play module in Peaceful Mamas, (yes! there is an entire module on play, because it is so important) but I know that many of us feel guilty because we don’t…
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7 Actionable Ways to Be More Present in Motherhood
7 Things that you can do, even on the busiest days to be more present in motherhood. None of these take more than ten minutes. — During my kindergartener’s school’s Harvest Faire, I noticed his teacher and her kids laughing…
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Slow Motherhood Challenge: You Don’t Have to Do it All
I call myself the Chief Doer, Finder, and Knower. You probably have a similar role at home. But this is a reminder that you don’t have to do it all. You really don’t.
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There is Time For That: Finding Time to Slow Down
We find ourselves rushing from one thing to another. We are too busy for this and that. What would change if we focused on finding time to slow down?
