Mindful Mothering

Let me begin with a story.  It is a story of good intentions.  It is also a story of denial. I was delivering training on attachment two weeks ago, at the…

 Photo Shutterstock/Halfpoint A New Mother Blessing By Gina Hassan, PhD What I wish for you is to be accepting of not knowing, And to be…

My eldest son turned 20 a few months back. It was around a week ago that I found myself sitting in the bath with my 7 year old daughter, trying to recall the…

Although I have written about the research on the positive effects of mindfulness and presence in my book, Parenting for Social Change, and in several articles,…

“Coincidence is God’s Way of Remaining Anonymous.” —Albert Einstein Etched in my mind is the image of my mother on the day she taught me to pray. She is…

Does parenting reinforce the control and domination in our culture or is it a reflection of the freedom we claim to value so dearly? When I stepped into the…

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” — Helen Keller I was recently contacted…

We’ve all witnessed it – our serene and blissful child transforming before our eyes over a seemingly small disappointment or discomfort. His freshly built,…

One week ago I way lying in a hospital bed with my mother, holding her hand, my cheek next to hers, wading through an illness that had stopped her in her…

I am sitting in a cozy, almost empty cafe, my body arranged sideways in my seat—an attempt to avoid lower back pain brought on by exercise done too…