“So Perfect”— A Love Story about Listening

“So Perfect”— A Love Story about Listening

There’s one story I carry about my daughter that will always live on the altar for me, because of the tender teaching it continuously provides. Several years ago, when my daughter Arayla was in her early teens, I began to overhear a phrase she would say almost every...
On Our Knees Is Not The Worst Place To Be

On Our Knees Is Not The Worst Place To Be

It’s been a hot minute, (a six-month-long, somewhat grueling hot minute) since I really engaged online. And so, I’d like to start by just saying: I love you. I love you and I’ve missed engaging, and I’m sorry that I’m not always authentically capable of sharing my...
Wholeheartedly Teaching to an Empty Room

Wholeheartedly Teaching to an Empty Room

Earlier this week, for two days in a row I wholeheartedly showed up to teach a webinar to an empty room of zero participants! The day before that, on the first day of the webinar, I had one attendee, sitting there in her little zoom box, receiving every word. Because...
Witnessed by Our Children; Modeling Vulnerability & Humanness

Witnessed by Our Children; Modeling Vulnerability & Humanness

My children have watched me intimately since they were born, of course. They know me in ways that nobody else does. For better and for worse. They know how to track the subtle changes of light and shadow that move across my face in a single day. They know how to...
21 Keys to Sanity While Stewarding Teens

21 Keys to Sanity While Stewarding Teens

21 KEYS TO SANITY WHILE STEWARDING TEENS 1. We are rewarded in our willingness to endure difficult, painful, and even messy conversations with our teens, in which complexity, triggers, and tears might arise, on both sides. 2. It’s never about perfect. It’s about...