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Helping Children to Regulate the Power of their Emotions

Photo Credit: https://pixabay.com/illustrations/balloons-spring-nature-watercolour-1615032/ Parents as Emotional Competence Coaches Children can have BIG emotio...

3 Rules of Engagement for Hugging Children

Photo Credit: https://pixabay.com/photos/baby-celebrate-celebration-child-2980940/ Everyone loves hugs! Hugs are vitally important in bonding process, and hugs ...

Rotty in a Bib of Ferns

Meet Oliver, one of our Rotty Pups who just loves to run in our woods. He is a great tease to his older brother, hiding out in the ferns and colliding with him ...

Found Altar at the Beach

Strewn like tiny poems, these sea gifts cascade from the ocean to the shore for us to observe, value or collect. Funny how a little bit of sun can warm the wint...

Winter Yoga Fish Pose

I love the heart opening that happens during Fish Pose. Here I am supported by my kurma yoga wheel. It is beautiful to feel supported in this life, and the whee...

Sky & River

The Sun is spectacular and luminous in the winter months. There is so much clarity, amplified by the crispness of the air. I love walking along the edges of wat...

GRACE: A Formula For Busy, Frazzled Parents

Photo Credit: Mabel Amber https://pixabay.com/photos/child-father-daughter-parent-3871837/ Parenting is a multitasking sport! There is always so much going on, ...

Meme for Steem

In my head, my title is sounding like Tom Cruise quipping; "I have a need, a need for speed". I have a meme, a meme for Steem! I think another advantage of bein...

Parenting through Turbulent Developmental Stages

.jpg) Photo Credit: Aaron Carrion from Unsplash When our children are happy, calm, quiet and compliant, it is an absolute delight to be a parent. We may even fe...

When Sun Meet Ice

Here on the West Coast, we've had an unusual amount of snow. As a former Ontarian, it is glorious to me to have snow! The temperatures have been unusually cold ...

Guided Body Scan Meditation

I created a course to help people understand and experience a deeper mind body connection. One of the tools in the course is this Body Scan meditation. It is a ...

Take a Six Minute Break: Guided Grounding Meditation

There are endless studies to validate the importance of meditation as beneficial for your health and well-being. Guided meditations are an easy way to relax, re...

A Trinity of Metrics from Kripalu Yoga for Deepening the Power of Asana

This is a post from one of the blogs on my Website: A Deeper Well. I teach an Introduction to Yoga course in White Rock, British Columbia. This is some informat...

Hopium: Sky Lace & Hosting a Positive Attitude

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer" ~ Albert Camus I've learned, rather late in my life, that attitude is ...

The Unbearable Light Nest of Being

My daily walks through our old growth forest have me toggle between having a telescope in one eye and a microscope in the other. Materially, my contemplative ph...

Dancing with Eagles

Movement Matters: Finding ways to move through Winter with Joy include being open to finding surprise and delight in our environments. That is easy for us here ...

The Joy of Winter Yoga

Winter is a glorious time to enjoy nature, and to explore everyday activities in diverse ways. My partner built me a 'sound stage' from which to create yoga vid...

Accidents As Art

One of my favourite winter photos is this over-exposed leaf. I'd been working with a new-to-me camera (Canon EOS Rebel T5i(hey... partenthesis within parenthesi...

Entering the Stream of STEEM

This is a photo of our backyard in the Vancouver Version of Winter. The Pacific West Coast offers moderate temperatures, which means not a great deal of snow. O...