You have a huge heart.  You’re passionate, sensitive and prioritize a deep listening for and attending to what makes Life and Love more possible for more beings on Earth, especially for our children.

You’re committed to showing up for your kids — and to showing up for your own sense of aliveness and integrity.

Likewise, you’re devoted to making a meaningful contribution to the world — and to keep turning inward and tending a rich inner life.

You know that these orientations aren’t inherently pitted against each other — you know that taking time for yourself and taking care of yourself benefits your family and benefits the world — but you still feel like a good portion of your creative energies are spent juggling everyone’s needs including your own, navigating these “either/or” dilemmas, and feeling drained by disappointment when your plans are interrupted by a child’s cold or any other number of things.  

Parenting is hard. It just is. Especially in a world that’s not built for parents and children. And every season of parenting has its own particular challenge. Just when you feel like you’ve got a hang of things — it changes. And still, it’s possible to cultivate relational practices that fill your cup at a foundational level, so that even at the end of a day where there’s little sense of order and/or little time for “you”, there’s still the spiritual nourishment of feeling part of an animate world, held together in rhythm and in season, and (at least more and more often) in the right place, at the right time.