“Our psychic life has rhythm: it is a series of transitions and resting-places, of ‘flights and perchings.’ We rest when we remember the name we have been searching for; and we are off again when we hear a noise that might be the baby waking from her nap.” – William James. Rhythm must be important; […]
Imagine taking a bath in the forest. Smelling the fecund soil and the fresh, pine-scented air, feeling the slight breeze against your skin, hearing the birds chirping and the wind rustling through the trees, the damp soft ground beneath your feet. Your heart rate and brain waves are decreasing, your body begins to produce less […]
This refrain from the old movie, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid for me captures an essential aspect of parenting. People tend to talk about “raising” kids, but for me kids are not so much raised as “discovered.” I remember driving in my car with my younger son who would then have been around sixteen. […]