Features:
1. Blueprints to that dream life 2. Tools of the Trade: Building blocks to emotionally healthy fams 3. The new mood crew
Dreaming of sunshine? I’ve been gifted with nature-loving friends & colleagues who keep inviting me to long trail walks through our local woodland parks. This morning, the path was powdered with snow, a bucolic setting like a Rockwell painting backdrop. There was a dream-like quality to stepping through a picture painting as we moved through the trees & trailheads, crunching snow & leaves underfoot.
Artie Wu, my favorite meditation teacher (who teaches us to keep meditation techniques running “in the background” as we move through our daily lives), is opening his end-of-year advising cohort with a timely focus on “The Power of Winter in Living Your Dreams.” Part Jungian philosophy, part channeling of ancient wisdom, part intellectual humor & wit, & all magnetic spirit, Artie’s advising groups are simultaneously simple & profound.
This time, he’s leading advisees into an online retreat where things are guaranteed to get deep even as he invites us to view the most superficial aspects of our life experiences with the same curiosity we bring to solving the symbolic riddles of our slumbering dreams.
Substack writer & family coach Daniel Hagadorn of 360º Parenting has at last completed his deep-thinking & informative series on The 7 Building Blocks of an Emotionally Healthy Family. (Educators, take heed: Hagadorn speaks freely in criticism of the gaps in public education. It’s a noteworthy read, regardless of what side you align with in the public education debate/s.)
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If you are less about spiritual or intellectual philosophy but more about emotionally-embracing action, DBSA (the Depression-Bipolar Support Alliance) has a fantastic new series for families and caregivers to young children, ages 4–10, in the mental health consumer category:
Their “Mood Crew,” a series of colorful characters of alien feelings (& aren’t all feelings alien to us when we are first learning to understand & accept them?) lead people of all ages—but especially those younger kiddos—through emotional processing via tools like coloring pages, sticker tracking charts, workbooks, stories & videos.
Tune In, our mindfulness-based podcast & community radio show, has just entered its 4th season of content. You can find some of it here on our Substack page & even more of it through your fave podcast listening platform. Become a subscriber to get weekly updates. And use the Spotify Discussion feature to ask & answer Qs, share your own resource links & get secret downloads.