Today I had the pleasure of sharing mindfulness with a group of amazing educators! I’ve been teaching mindfulness to elementary students and the students truly love each lesson. The book, Sharing Mindfulness With Children is a truly wonderful mindfulness book of activities to do to help children learn self-discipline, self-control as well as becoming mindful Read more about Sharing Mindfulness With Staff[…]
I have just begun reading Ensouling Our Schools by Jennifer Katz with Kevin Lamoureux. I loved her book, Teaching to Diversitry and this one is a terrific follow up. She writes so elegantly and with such passion for students of diversity. I love the following excerpt from Katz’s introduction: “Ask any teacher to list the Read more about Ensouling Our Schools[…]
I know that I am the luckiest woman in the world! Yesterday I spent the afternoon with my youngest granddaughter. You see, we have this tradition that we take each of our grandchildren shopping for their birthdays and Christmas. This gives us one on one time with each of them which is difficult when all Read more about I Am Lucky[…]
I subscribe to a “Daily Inspiration” And today’s inspiration was so true and helpful, I wanted to share it with you, my blog team. It recommends the following: “If you feel you’re not able to make your dreams a reality, meditation will help you and here’s why. When we direct our thoughts they create a Read more about My Inspiration Message Today[…]
It is my goal to live a healthy lifestyle in mind, body, heart and soul. I try to have a routine for myself mentally by learning something new every day. It is easy to learn new things if I keep an open mind, read, and listen with my ears, eyes and heart. I have a Read more about Living a Healthy Lifestyle[…]
My husband and I have never created a brochure together before this week. However, we did it! I had set a goal to have created a Summit Consulting brochure for my business by Friday, yes, that is yesterday. And it was done and printed by 4:00 yesterday afternoon. Yes, we actually had fun working creatively Read more about Being Creative in Business[…]
This morning’s reading is from Brene Brown’s, The Gifts of Imperfection. Brown’s second chapter is about ‘Cultivating Self-Compassion.’ At the end of this chapter she challenges us to answer her question, “How do you dig deep?” She says we need to dig deep by 3 steps: ‘Get Deliberate, Get Inspired and Get Going.” ‘Get Deliberate’ Read more about How Do You Dig Deep?[…]
Today a friend of mine posted a video on Facebook of an inspirational young man, Johnathan Mooney, speaking about his educational experience. He had been diagnosed with dyslexia, ADHD and dubbed as incapable of succeeding in life, not to mention acquiring a University degree. However, Johnathan met on educator, a priest who challenged him to Read more about Teaching to Diversity[…]
Brene Brown says, “Perfectionism never happens in a vacuum. It touches everyone around us. We pass it on to our children, we infect our workplace with impossible expectations, and it’s suffocating for our friends and families. Thankfully, compassion also spreads quickly. When we’re kind to ourselves, we create a reservoir of compassion that we can Read more about Perfectionism Never Happens In A Vacuum[…]
This morning I had the pleasure of listening to John Asaraf speak about how so many of us don’t live our dream life because of fears that hold us back. John spoke of his own fears as a 6 year old boy in Montreal because he could not speak English or French. He only spoke Read more about Are Your Fears Holding You Back?[…]