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Family Gap Year Post #11: Planning for the Heart
Our Family Gap Year starts in 42 days! So far, I’ve done a lot of planning for my head and hands. Now it’s time to plan for the heart.
What I mean by that is that I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about what where we are going to be and what we are going to do. We booked all the AirBnBs for our massive road trip in June: Austin to Bloomington to Madison to Montana to Washington to Vancouver to Eugene to Northern California to Southern California. We’ve booked our AirBnBs for the month of July as we hop from Oahu to Kauai’i to Maui. And we’ve booked … Read More
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New Podcast Episode—Mindfulness Served: Being Intentional about Food
Today we talk about something that both of us really struggle with: how to have a mindful relationship with food. So if anyone is listening with hopes of hearing from people who have achieved mastery, this podcast might not be for you! But we do delve into some honest talk about how hard this is for us and why, as well as what we’ve have done to make it easier. We start with our current Highs and Lows (i.e., finding our groove as a family, seeing if chickens can truly do the chicken dance, long stretches of vacation parenting, and colonoscopies). Then we shift into Today’s Topic. Next we … Read More
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My Parenting Meditation: What I’m Trying
Now that my job situation is more under control (after more than 8 years!) I’m shifting my focus to my parenting. I’m reading lots of books and trying to stay grounded.
There are so many reasons why parenting is super-hard for me, in particular! First, I like the destination more than the journey. (And parenting is all journey!). Second, I like to sculpt and control things to optimize the outcome. And parenting is more about watering seeds—seeds that grow into whatever they were destined to be (not determined by me).
I searched for parenting meditations on my free meditation app (Insight Timer) but wasn’t too jazzed about the … Read More