The Nourished Home Blog
My parents taught me to choose awe, wonder, and to consciously love my life when I was eight years old. And the teaching came through how they chose to journey through my father's diagnosis with stage 4 lymphoma cancer. He was terribly sick and, statistically speaking, wasn't supposed to survive.
It was a traumatic time for our whole family AND it was a time of great soul-stirring adventure where we got to learn how courageous, connected, and clear we were about our love for each other.
We also learned about the soul's capacity to heal.
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Open your mind in this moment to how PLAY (for kids and adults) is fundamental to the creative process, to getting grounded, to clearing the mental clutter, and to connecting to your innate strengths and gifts.
Both children and adults need to PLAY, and I promise that unstructured, “purposeless” time (no goal in mind), like going to the beach, walking through the woods, dancing with someone you love, laughing, having FUN…
These activities are not only critical to the experience of childhood but also connect YOU to who you really are, as well as your best ideas in work and life.
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Here we are at the sixth step towards your From Hectic to Harmonious Summer.
Let's review the steps we've taken so far:
- Let go of mental clutter so you can make space for what matters (FIND HERE).
- Know how you want to feel this summer so you can be guided by desire rather than overwhelmed by stress (FIND HERE).
- Practice the art of seeing & hearing your children so you know how to bring out the best in them over the long summer days ahead (FIND HERE).
- Practice gratitude so that your capacity for the joys of summer expands (FIND HERE).
- Breathe and be mindful so you can confidently respond to your children's not-so-harmonious summertime moments (ahem, meltdowns) with compassion, strength, and wisdom (FIND HERE).
Here's your final step: share your vision of your From Hectic to Harmonious Summer with your family and friends so you can be supported and see your dream through.
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“We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.”
~ Maya Angelou
I'm going to keep step five of the From Hectic to Harmonious Summer series short and sweet. If you want to appreciate all of the moments to adore, cherish and live with the ones you love this summer, it’s time to dive into your mindfulness practice.
The simplest of tips that I can share with you is this:
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“It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.”
~ Brother David Steindl-Rast
You may have noticed that the steps I’m sharing towards your From Hectic to Harmonious Summer are really about the internal process, the mindset shifts, and personal work that allows us to be harmonious parents so we can bring more joy, connection, and soul-stirring adventure to our families and lives.
Step four is no different and here we’re tapping into the relationship between gratitude and joy.
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Welcome to the 3rd step towards your From Hectic to Harmonious Summer!
In step one we explored how to let go of the mental clutter that overwhelms you so that you can tune into your intuition and be guided by your desires rather than your to-do list. In step two we got you grounded in how YOU want to feel and experience your life.
And today, I invite you to let go of the need to fix your kids, to make them happy, or to create the "perfect" summer, home, and life for them.
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The second step towards your From Hectic to Harmonious Summer is all about getting grounded in how you want to feel this summer.
In step one we explored how to let go of the mental clutter that overwhelms you so that you can tune into your intuition and be guided by your desires rather than your to-do list.
So I ask you today, what do you commit to letting go of a bit more so that you can relax into the deeper joys of your life this summer?
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Here is the first of six steps to your From Hectic to Harmonious Summer. Step one is all about letting go.
Let go of the mental clutter that overwhelms you.
It's time to let go -- Let go of the mental clutter that rules your life. Let go of the need to get everything done, release the need to “figure everything out” in parenting, love, and life so you can spend more time BEING in this moment.
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My family and I have returned from my commencement at The University of Delaware and I send my thanks to all who sent me good wishes over the past week! At the end of the ceremony, Flannery, my four-year-old said to me,
"Mama, you're the leader of our whole family."
Although I fully share leadership with my husband in our family ;) this moment melted my heart...
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“Imperfection is a form of freedom.”
~ Anh Ngo
What would open up in your life if you had a deep knowing that you were born to be perfectly imperfect?
How would your relationship with your your children shift if you could once and for all release the pressure of cultivating the smartest, strongest, most successful (i.e. perfect) kids on the planet?
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