I have very high energy kids, including one with special needs, that require a lot of attention. So I’m a person school also brings a welcome respite from the intense energy and attention of summer.
Radical acceptance is all about being authentic and giving yourself permission to embrace emotion at the moment, instead of faking happiness.
If you’ve ever devoted your best effort to a project only to have it fail, then you will relate to this telling of the Chinese folktale “The Empty Pot” by Demi.
The fact that I told her I didn’t have time to pamper myself has sat heavy on my heart for a while now. Why don’t I have time to pamper myself?
Do you know what YOUR life’s purpose is? It’s so simple, really. And I believe it’s the same PURPOSE for everyone in this world.
Have you ever gotten to the end of your day and felt like a total failure because of all that you did not get done? This is something I have struggled with for as long as I can remember. Every. Single. Day.
The words we allow to live in our head, that internal playlist of comments that tends to surface when things get challenging, are what determine our emotional mindset for the day.
The truth of it is that life will never go exactly as you expected. We can plan but then we truly get the opportunity to show up to life and live life on life’s terms.
Have you ever had one (or a million) of those mornings where you just woke up, but you already feel frustrated, behind, needed, unappreciated and just…GAH? Oh momma, me too. Me too. Then I learned how to create the “miracle morning”.
“Isn’t homeschooling already a little less conventional?” And while I would agree with you, our new path is actually even less frequented. It’s somewhat grown over, so to speak. Yet beloved by those who travel it. We are unschooling.