Posts by Kristen Bentley
Sharing – “Broken Things” and “Loveness”
This beautiful article just had to be shared as is…we all have this voice in us as parents and our children are here to teach us to learn to listen to it. It knows. BROKEN THINGS {from the Majestic Unicorn} October 20, 2015 by Kathleen Fleming This was my hallway last Wednesday. Broken. Sharp. Treacherous.…
Read MoreCurious Communication
Curious communication is about preserving and cultivating attentiveness within a relationship. Curious communication is hard, because we have to slow down. We have to forsake results and complicate the problem for a little while. We have to stop skating on the surface and fall into the depths. We have to put down our agendas, set aside our expectations,…
Read MoreThis place where you are
This place where you are…this place where you stand…is where you must start. From here you can go in any direction…and it is impossible to start from anywhere else. Ron Atchison
Read MoreWisdom from Making Mistakes
We make a lot of mistakes. If you ask people whom you consider to be wise and courageous about their lives, you may find that they have hurt a lot of people and made a lot of mistakes, but that they used those occasions as opportunities to humble themselves and open their hearts. We don’t…
Read MoreHow is the ‘Professional You’ interfering with your Parenting?
You’ve achieved success in your career and now you find yourself struggling in an area of life that means so much to you; your role as a Parent. You’ve heard the comments that children don’t come with an owner’s manual and you sure wish they did. You know that there are some ways that you…
Read MoreA new look at Work-Life Balance
“The current understanding of work-life balance is too simplistic. People find it hard to balance work with family, family with self, because it might not be a question of balance. Some other dynamic is in play, something to do with a very human attempt at happiness that does not quantify different parts of life and…
Read MoreSuccess ! ? ! ?
Success can be the greatest barrier to stopping, to quiet, to opening up the radically different form of conversation that is necessary for understanding this larger sense of self. Our very success can be the cause of a greater anxiety for further preservation of our success. Our highly evolved ability to worry and become anxious…
Read MoreWorkday vs. Work Life
The interesting thing about a work life is that it is very much like a workday. Most of the hard work is done by simply turning up, facing the task at hand and moving forward, inch by inch, foot by foot, until we look around, admittedly after a much greater time than we expected, but…
Read MoreHow do you ‘escape’ or ‘control’ your life?
This post is written with full respect for and not meant to minimize the depth of addiction. It is intended to open people up to seeing where addiction does show up in your life and ideally as an invitation to read more about this mind-blowing take on addictive energy by picking up this book and…
Read MoreYour Emotional Literacy will build Their Emotional Literacy
{This article was modified and syndicated on YourTango.} I read the news today oh boy. On September 18th, 2015, I woke up to the unfortunate news that a young 18 year old girl died during the first week of classes in her first year of University. I wept. I wept for this poor young girl…
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