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“What do you want?” If you’re not sure how to answer this — what I view as the mother of all coaching questions — you are not alone. Getting to the bottom of our heart’s truest desires — not the wants fabricated by society, the company you work for, or the unrealized dreams of our […]

Beware the white Land Rover

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“Memory retrieval when combined with narrative reflection can be a memory modifier.” – Dr. Dan Siegel In other words: Remembering something, when combined with a story to make sense of the memory, changes the memory. Why is this so important? As parents, we are human. And what does it mean to be human? Well, we […]

Why repair can feel so hard

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A client messaged me today: “I hit white last night with my son.” She was referring to an exercise we’d practiced, based on a Jai Institute for Parenting tool (download a worksheet version here), where emotions and associated physical/mental cues are visualized on a thermometer. The scale ranges from deep green (calm, connected) to yellow […]

“I Hit White Last Night”