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By stacy on December 20, 2010
part of Holistic Mama’s life up close series Lately I’ve been upset over the violent play, over the constant good-guy, bad-guy stuff, especially hearing it coming from my youngest, Mica, who just turned four. When Orlando was four, he didn’t even know guns existed, or good guys and bad guys for that matter. And we [...]
Posted in kids' violent play, nonviolent communication, peaceful parenting | Tagged boys, cuddle time, playing, toys |
By stacy on May 4, 2010
It was Saturday night. I had been at a Hakomi workshop all day, learning about and experiencing nourishing communication. I had left the house at 8:45 in the morning and arrived home at 5:30… I love coming home on a day like that. Now it was bedtime, and we were all snuggled in. Rom and [...]
Posted in empathy, hakomi therapy, nonviolent communication, peaceful parenting, popular posts | Tagged celebrations, connecting, listening, presence |
By stacy on January 21, 2010
This is the fifth post in my series Practicing Peace, in which I am sharing some of the practices I do throughout my days, including mindfulness, self-connection, and meditation. See the end of this post for links to all the posts in the series. Here is the last self-connection technique I’ll share. I covered three [...]
Posted in nonviolent communication, self-connection | Tagged the mom |
By stacy on January 20, 2010
This is the fourth post in my series Practicing Peace, in which I am sharing some of the practices I do throughout my days, including mindfulness, self-connection, and meditation. See the end of this post for links to all the posts in the series. The mindfulness practices help me get through each moment at a time, but [...]
Posted in hakomi therapy, mindfulness, nonviolent communication, self-connection | Tagged focusing |
By stacy on January 12, 2010
Orlando was swinging something around behind me. It was long and whip-like. I turned around and told him, “Orlando, no swinging in the house. That could really hurt some—— is that my headset?” Orlando immediately handed over what he had been swinging. It was, in fact, the fancy, low-radiation headset for my phone. “Oh no!” [...]
Posted in nonviolent communication, peaceful parenting, popular posts | Tagged hold on to your kids |
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