Kate Milliken

In today's journaling workshop, I posed a question that truly gave our rare mothers pause:

If you think about your life journey, what are your most important values?

Padma Gordon

When life is a series of completing things and going to appointments, are you living fully? What does it mean to be living? One of the things we uncovered in our Spiritual Self-Care Workshop was that really living means giving yourself some breathing room to be in your heart.

Kate Milliken

Last Thursday, a group of us got fully anecdotal, sharing personal stories where a tough life experience led to a silver lining. Loss brought celebration. Tough scenarios that weren't going to change created the decision to accept.

Kate Milliken

Yesterday, we spoke about the five most important people we spent time with and how they helped us be who we are. How do your children contribute to you being you? And how do your friends and other family members, through their unconditionality and honesty remind you of your greatest strengths and weaknesses?

Padma Gordon

Do you have eight seconds to connect to yourself? Sometimes it may not feel like it and this is all it takes. Imagine you are sitting in your car at a stoplight. Instead of feeling frustrated that you missed the green light, you can use the time to settle down and breathe for eight seconds, and another eight seconds, until the light turns green.

Kate Milliken

What does it take to be a rare mom? The answer that came out today in our journaling workshop, without question, was backbone. This community finds the strength to hold it together to move things forward on behalf of our child/children even when it can be unbelievably painful.

Padma Gordon

Life is more beautiful when we pay attention and paying attention is a skill. It can be hard as a Rare mother to be present with your child when you have so many other responsibilities. Multitasking can become a habit. Unfortunately, it’s a habit that separates us from the moment and hinders our ability to be fully present.

Padma Gordon

Do you feel guilty for taking care of yourself? Do you give yourself a hard time when you make mistakes? What would it be like to give yourself permission to be kind and loving with yourself? Loving yourself means you take care of yourself in little ways.

Kate Milliken

Because so much of a rare mothers time is spent on others, a question always lingers in the background. Who are you? I presented a quote today in our weekly journaling workshop that led into a powerful class assignment and I want to share it with you.